Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program / edited by Henk Flap and Beate Völker.
"The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays contributes to a theoretical integration as well as standardization of measurement instruments and co-ordination of empirical research on the significance of...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in sociology ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Creation and returns of social capital: A new-research program / Henk Flap
- 2. The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada / Bonnie H. Erickson
- 3. Does social capital offset social and economic inequalities? Social capital in everyday life / Alain Degenne, Marie-Odile Lebeaux and Yannick Lemel
- 4. Information and the creation and return of social capital: An experimental study / Arno Riedl and Erans van Winden
- 5. Social capital in exchange networks: A simulation study of network evolution / Phillip Bonacich
- 6. Social capital in education: Functional communities around high schools in the Netherlands / Anne Bert Dijkstra, Rene Veenstra and Jules Peschar
- 7. Job search in urban China: Gender, network chains, and embedded resources / Nan Lin
- 8. Social networks and performance at work: A study of the returns of social capital in doing one's job / Beate Volker and Henk Flap
- 9. Proposals for the measurement of individual social capital / Martin van der Gaag and Tom Snijders
- 10. Measuring social capital by network capacity indices / Ove Frank
- 11. Social capital and economics / Martin Paldam and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
- 12. Role and rise of social capital / Michel Forse.