Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program /

Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program / edited by Henk Flap and Beate Völker. - xx, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in sociology ; 9 . - Routledge advances in sociology ; 9. .

Papers presented at a conference of international scholars in Amsterdam, held in 1999, and organized around the research of the SCALE research program supported by a grant from NWO [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek], project number 510-05-0200.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creation and returns of social capital: A new-research program / The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada / Does social capital offset social and economic inequalities? Social capital in everyday life / Information and the creation and return of social capital: An experimental study / Social capital in exchange networks: A simulation study of network evolution / Social capital in education: Functional communities around high schools in the Netherlands / Job search in urban China: Gender, network chains, and embedded resources / Social networks and performance at work: A study of the returns of social capital in doing one's job / Proposals for the measurement of individual social capital / Measuring social capital by network capacity indices / Social capital and economics / Role and rise of social capital / Henk Flap -- Bonnie H. Erickson -- Alain Degenne, Marie-Odile Lebeaux and Yannick Lemel -- Arno Riedl and Erans van Winden -- Phillip Bonacich -- Anne Bert Dijkstra, Rene Veenstra and Jules Peschar -- Nan Lin -- Beate Volker and Henk Flap -- Martin van der Gaag and Tom Snijders -- Ove Frank -- Martin Paldam and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen -- Michel Forse. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

"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 social capital."--Publisher description.

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