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Zusatztext Social Capital... is an ambitious and important book that, like the concept it seeks to clarify, measure and utilize, merits careful attention by sociologists across the spectrum. Informationen zum Autor Nan Lin is Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology, Duke University. He has conducted research on social capital, social networks, stratification and mobility, and stress coping in the United States, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He has written or edited seven books and published numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also an Academician at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and holds honorary professorship in many universities in China. Professor Bonnie Erickson received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of British Columbia before moving to Harvard where she completed her Doctorate in Social Relations. She then spent three years as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University before joining the faculty at University of Toronto in 1973. In addition to her work in the Department of Sociology, Erickson is currently cross-appointed to the Centre for Studies on Aging, the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Centre for Industrial Relations, and is on the Board of Directors of the Centre for Health Promotion. Erickson has published articles on a wide variety of topics, getting printed in publications including the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, American Sociological Review, Social Networks, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Klappentext The volume brings together some of the leading scholars around the world working on social capital to study how individuals and groups access and use their social relations and social connections to do better in society in order to achieve their goals. Zusammenfassung For two decades, a significant number of scholars have subscribed to a common definition 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 and societal 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Nan Lin: Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital Part I: The Position Generator Methodology: its Reliability, Validity and Variation 2: Martin Van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Flap: Position generator measures and their relationship to other Social Capital measures 3: Yang-chih Fu: Position Generator and Actual Networks in Everyday Life: An Evaluation with Contact Diary 4: Henk Flap and Beate Völker: Social, cultural, and economic capital and job attainment: The position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources 5: Yanjie Bian: The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence Part II: Mobilization of Social Capital 6: Nan Lin and Dan Ao: The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study 7: Hester Moerbeek and Henk Flap: Social Resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course 8: Sandra Susan Smith: A Question of Access or Mobilization? Understanding Inefficacious Job Referral Networks among the Black Poor Part III: Social Capital,...
