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Social capital : an international research program /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lin, Nan, 1938-, Erickson, Bonnie H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Social capital (Sociology)
Community development.
Community organization.
Social participation.
Table of Contents:
  • Theory, measurement, and the research enterprise on social capital / Nan Lin, Bonnie H. Erickson
  • Position generator measures and their relationship to other social capital measures / Martin van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Flap
  • Position generator and actual networks in everyday life : an evaluation with contact diary / Yang-chih Fu
  • Social, cultural, and economic capital, and job attainment : the position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources / Henk Flap, Beate Völker
  • The formation of social capital among Chinese urbanites : theoretical explanation and empirical evidence / Yanjie Bian
  • The invisible hand of social capital : an exploratory study / Nan Lin, Dan Ao
  • Social resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course / Hester Moerbeek, Henk Flap
  • A question of access or mobilization? Understanding inefficacious job referral networks among the Black poor / Sandra Susan Smith
  • Social networks of participants in voluntary associations / Rene Bekkers, Beate Volker, Martin van der Gaag, Henk Flap
  • The Internet, social capital, civic engagement, and gender in Japan / Kakuko Miyata, Ken'ichi Ikeda, Tetsuro Kobayashi
  • Social capital of personnel managers : the causes and return of position-generated networks and the participation in voluntary associations / Ray-May Hsung, Yi-Jr Lin
  • It's not only who you know, it's also where they are : using the position generator to investigate the structure of access to embedded resources / Sandra Enns, Todd Malinick, Ralph Matthews
  • Gender, network capital, social capital, and political capital : the consequences of personal network diversity for environmentalists in British Columbia / D. B. Tindall, Jeffrey J. Cormier
  • Civic participation and social capital : a social network analysis in two American counties / Marc Porter Magee
  • Why some occupations are better known than others / Bonnie H. Erickson
  • Marriage, gender, and social capital / Gina Lai
  • Access to social capital and status attainment in the United States : racial/ethnic, and gender differences / Jennifer L. Moren Cross, Nan Lin
  • Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia / Catherine A. Johnson
  • Assessing social capital and attainment dynamics : position generator applications in Hungary, 1987-2003 / Róbert Angelusz, Róbert Tardos.