Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families

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ISBN: 9780415411172 | 0415411173
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/11/2008

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Social capital refers to the way people make use of social networks in "getting ahead". This text presents the major contributions and advances in theory and method of one of the "hottest" concepts in international academic social-science research.

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List of Tables	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xvii
List of Abbreviations	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Advances in Theory and Methods of Social Capital
Position Generators, Affiliations, and the Institutional Logics of Social Capital: A Study of Taiwan Firms and Individuals	p. 3
Changing Places: The Influence of Meeting Places on Recruiting Friends	p. 28
Does The Golden Rule Rule?	p. 49
Making Democracy Work via the Functioning of Heterogeneous Personal Networks: An Empirical Analysis Based on a Japanese Election Study	p. 72
Markets and Social Capital
The Context Challenge: Generalizing Social Capital Processes Across Two Different Settings	p. 93
The Transaction Cost: Embeddedness Approach to Studying Chinese Outsourcing	p. 115
Constructed Network as Social Capital: The Transformation of Taiwan's Small and Medium Enterprise Organization	p. 139
Social Capital in Communities
Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China	p. 163
The Distribution and Return of Social Capital in Taiwan	p. 193
Social Capital in Communities, Development and Integration: The Four Village Case Study in Hungary, 2000	p. 216
Distinctiveness and Disadvantage Among the Urban Poor: Is Low Network Capital Really the Problem?	p. 244
Families and Social Capital
Parental Closure Effects on Learning: Coleman's Theory of Social Capital on Learning Revisited	p. 277
Childcare Networks and Embedded Experiences	p. 299
The Immediate Returns on Time Investment in Daily Contacts: Exploring the Network-Overlapping Effects from Contact Diaries	p. 327
Contributors	p. 349
Index	p. 351
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