TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flap,Hendrik Derk
AU  - Völker,Beate
TI  - Creation and returns of social capital: a new research program 
T2  - Routledge advances in sociology
SN  - 0415300592
AV  - HM708 .C74 2004
U1  - 302 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social capital (Sociology)
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -