For two decades, a significant number of scholars have subscribed to a commondefinition of social capital (resources embedded in social networks), employed a standard measurement (the position generator methodology), and conducted original research. Their sustained efforts have demonstrated the power of the concept of social capital in diverse arenas of research and varied cultural andsocietal settings. Their work has contributed to the substantiation, development, and expansion of social capital as a key scientific concept and theory. This book presents an introduction to some of the most recent work in the area.The volume editors have brought together scholars in North America, Europe, and East Asia to offer original and accessible reports of their own research studies. Covering both methodological and substantive issues, they demonstrate the continued importance of social capital as a guiding concept and theory in social sciences today INDICE: 1. Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital , Nan Lin. Part I: The Position Generator Methodology: its Reliability, Validity and Variation. 2. Position generator measures and their relationship toother Social Capital measures , Martin Van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, HenkFlap. 3. Position Generator and Actual Networks in Everyday Life: An Evaluation with Contact Diary , Yang-chih Fu. 4. Social, cultural, and economic capital and job attainment: The position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources , Henk Flap and Beate Völker. 5. The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence , Yanjie Bian. Part II: Mobilization of Social Capital. 6. The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study , Nan Lin and Dan Ao. 7. Social Resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course , Hester Moerbeek and Henk Flap. 8. A Question of Access or Mobilization? Understanding Inefficacious Job Referral Networks among the Black Poor , Sandra Susan Smith.Part III: Social Capital, Civil Engagement, Social Participation, and Trust. 9. 9. Social Networks of Participants in Voluntary Associations , René Bekkers, Beate Völker, Martin van der Gaag, and Henk Flap. 10. The Internet, Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Gender in Japan , Kakuko Miyata, Ken'ichi Ikeda,and Tetsuro Kobayashi. 11. Social Capital of Personnel Managers: the Causes and Return of Position-Generated Networks and the Participation in Voluntary Associations , Ray-May Hsung and Yi-Jr Lin. 12. It's Not Only Who You Know, It'sAlso Where They Are: Using the Position 12. Generator to Investigate the Structure of Access to Embedded Resources , Sandra Enns, Todd Malinick, and Ralph Matthews. 13. Gender, Network Capital, Social Capital and Political Capital: The Consequences of Personal Network Diversity for Environmentalists in BritishColumbia. , D. B. Tindall and Jeffrey J. Cormier. 14. Civic Participation andSocial Capital: A Social Network Analysis in Two American Counties , Marc Porter Magee. Part IV: Social Institutions and Inequality in Social Capital. 15. Marriage, Gender, and Social Capital , Gina Lai. 16. Access to Social Capital and Status Attainment in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences , Jennifer L. Moren-Cross and Nan Lin. 17. Access to social capital and thestructure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia , Catherine A. Johnson. 18. Assessing Social Capital and Attainment Dynamics - position-generator (pg)-applications in Hungary, 1987-2003 , Róbert Angelusz and Róbert Tardos. References. Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923438-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés