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Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program / edited by Henk Flap and Beate Völker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in sociology ; 9.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xx, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415300592
  • 9780415300599
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302 21
LOC classification:
  • HM708 .C74 2004
Contents:
1. Creation and returns of social capital: A new-research program / Henk Flap -- 2. The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada / Bonnie H. Erickson -- 3. Does social capital offset social and economic inequalities? Social capital in everyday life / Alain Degenne, Marie-Odile Lebeaux and Yannick Lemel -- 4. Information and the creation and return of social capital: An experimental study / Arno Riedl and Erans van Winden -- 5. Social capital in exchange networks: A simulation study of network evolution / Phillip Bonacich -- 6. Social capital in education: Functional communities around high schools in the Netherlands / Anne Bert Dijkstra, Rene Veenstra and Jules Peschar -- 7. Job search in urban China: Gender, network chains, and embedded resources / Nan Lin -- 8. Social networks and performance at work: A study of the returns of social capital in doing one's job / Beate Volker and Henk Flap -- 9. Proposals for the measurement of individual social capital / Martin van der Gaag and Tom Snijders -- 10. Measuring social capital by network capacity indices / Ove Frank -- 11. Social capital and economics / Martin Paldam and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen -- 12. Role and rise of social capital / Michel Forse.
Summary: "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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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.

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

"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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