Contexts of Social Capital
Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
978-0-415-53672-1 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn't just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges.
This volume focuses on how social capital interacts with social institutions, based on the premise that markets, communities, and families are the major contexts within which people meet and build up social networks and the foci to create social capital. Featuring innovations in thinking about exchange mechanisms, resource distribution, institutional logics, resource diversity, and the degree of openness or closure of social networks, these chapters present some of the most important advances in this essential field.
Paralleling these theoretical developments, the chapters also improve practical methodological work on social capital research, using new techniques and measurement methods for the uncovering of social logics.
This volume focuses on how social capital interacts with social institutions, based on the premise that markets, communities, and families are the major contexts within which people meet and build up social networks and the foci to create social capital. Featuring innovations in thinking about exchange mechanisms, resource distribution, institutional logics, resource diversity, and the degree of openness or closure of social networks, these chapters present some of the most important advances in this essential field.
Paralleling these theoretical developments, the chapters also improve practical methodological work on social capital research, using new techniques and measurement methods for the uncovering of social logics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 12 s/w Zeichnungen, 72 s/w Tabellen
72 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-53672-1 (9780415536721)
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Ray-May Hsung | Nan Lin | Ronald L. Breiger
Contexts of Social Capital
Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
E-Book
11/2010
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download
Ray-May Hsung | Nan Lin | Ronald L. Breiger
Contexts of Social Capital
Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
E-Book
11/2010
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download
Ray-May Hsung | Nan Lin | Ronald L. Breiger
Contexts of Social Capital
Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
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12/2008
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Ray-May Hsung is Professor of Sociology at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Nan Lin is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA.
Ronald L. Breiger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA.
Nan Lin is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA.
Ronald L. Breiger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA.
Content
Part 1: Advances on Theory and Methods of Social Capital 1. Position Generators, Affiliations, and the Institutional Logics of Social Capital: A Study of Taiwan Firms and Individuals Ray-May Hsung and Ronald L. Breiger 2. Changing Places: The Influence of Meeting Places on Recruiting Friends Beate Voelker, Henk Flap and Gerald Mollenhors 3. Does the Golden Rule Rule? Rochelle R. Cote, Gabriele Plickert and Barry Wellman 4. Making Democracy Work via the Functioning of Heterogeneous Personal Networks: An Empirical Analysis based on a Japanese Election Study Ken'ichi Ikeda and Tetsuro Kobayashi Part 2: Markets And Social Capital 5. The Context Challenge: Generalizing Social Capital Processes Across Two Different Settings Bonnie H. Erickson 6. The Transaction Cost: Embeddedness Approach to Studying Chinese Outsourcing Jar-Der Luo and Yung-Chu Yeh 7. Constructed Network as Social Capital: The Transformation Of Taiwan's Small And Medium Enterprise Organization Chieh-Hsuan Chen Part 3: Social Capital in Communities 8. Production And Returns Of Social Capital: Evidence From Urban China Nan Lin, Dan Ao And Lijun Song 9. The Distribution and Return of Social Capital in Taiwan Chih-Jou Jay Chen 10. Social Capital in Communities, Development and Integration: The Four-Village Case Study in Hungary, 2000 Robert Tardos 11. Distinctiveness and Disadvantage among the Urban Poor: Is Low Network Capital Really the Problem Jeanne S. Hurlbert, John J. Beggs and Valerie A. Haines Part 4: Families and Social Capital 12. Parental Closure Effects on Learning: Coleman's Theory of Social Capital on Learning Revisited Ly-Yun Chang 13. Childcare Networks and Embedded Experiences Joseph Galaskiewicz, Beth M. Duckles and Olga Mayorova 14. The Immediate Returns on Time Investment in Daily Contacts: Exploring the Network-Overlapping Effects from Contact Diaries Yang-Chih Fu