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Contexts of social capital : social networks in markets, communities, and families /

One of the "hottest" concepts in international academic social-science research, social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of social networks in "getting ahead". This book presents the€latest contributions and advances in theory and method€in this important field...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hsung, Ray-May, Lin, Nan, 1938-, Breiger, Ronald L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Colección:Routledge advances in sociology ; 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Advances in 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 Volker, Henk Flap and Gerald Mollenhorst
  • 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
  • pt. II. Markets and Social Capital
  • 5. Context Challenge: Generalizing Social Capital Processes Across Two Different Settings / Bonnie H. Erickson
  • 6. 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
  • pt. III. Social Capital in Communities
  • 8. Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China / Nan Lin, Dan Ao and Lijun Song
  • 9. 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
  • pt. IV. 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. Immediate Returns on Time Investment in Daily Contacts: Exploring the Network-Overlapping Effects from Contact Diaries / Yang-Chih Fu.