Social capital : an international research program /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York:
Oxford University Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Theory, measurement, and the research enterprise on social capital, Section I.The position generator methodology: its reliability, validity, and variation, 2.Position generator measures and their relationship to other social capital measures, 3.Position generator and actual networks in everyday life: an evaluation with contact diary, 4.Social, cultural, and economic capital and job attainment: the position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources, 5.The formation of social capital among Chinese urbanities: theoretical explanation and empirical evidence, Section II.Mobilization of social capital, 6.The invisible hand of social capital: an exploratory study, 7.Social resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course, 8.A question of access of mobilization? Understanding inefficacious job referral networks among the black poor, Section III.Social capital, civil engagement, social participation, and trust, 9.Social networks of participants in voluntary associations, 10.The internet, social capital, civic engagement, and gender in Japan, 11.Social capital of personnel managers: causes and return of position-generated networks and participation in voluntary associations, 12.Itʹs not only who you know, itʹs also where they are: using the position generator to investigate the structure of access to embedded resources, 13.Gender, network capital, social capital, and political capital: the consequences of personal network diversity for environmentalists in British Columbia, 14.Civic participation and social capital: a social network analysis in two American counties, Section IV.Social institutions and inequality in social capital, 15.Why some occupations are better known than others, 16.Marriage, gender and social capital, 17.Access to social capital and status attainment in the United States: Racial/ Ethic and gender differences, 18.Access to social capital and the structure on inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 19.Assessing social capital and attainment dynamics: position generator applications in Hungary, 1987-2003.