Contexts of social capital : social networks in markets, communities, and families / edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald L. Breiger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-347 and index.

One of the "hottest" concepts in international academic social-science research, social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of social networks in "getting ahead". This book presents the€latest contributions and advances in theory and method€in this important field.

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pt. I. Advances in Theory and Methods of Social Capital -- 1. Position Generators, Affiliations, and the Institutional Logics of Social Capital: A Study of Taiwan Firms and Individuals / Ray-May Hsung and Ronald L. Breiger -- 2. Changing Places: The Influence of Meeting Places on Recruiting Friends / Beate Volker, Henk Flap and Gerald Mollenhorst -- 3. Does The Golden Rule Rule? / Rochelle R. Cote, Gabriele Plickert and Barry Wellman -- 4. Making Democracy Work via the Functioning of Heterogeneous Personal Networks: An Empirical Analysis Based on a Japanese Election Study / Ken'ichi Ikeda and Tetsuro Kobayashi -- pt. II. Markets and Social Capital -- 5. Context Challenge: Generalizing Social Capital Processes Across Two Different Settings / Bonnie H. Erickson -- 6. Transaction Cost: Embeddedness Approach to Studying Chinese Outsourcing / Jar-Der Luo and Yung-Chu Yeh -- 7. Constructed Network as Social Capital: The Transformation of Taiwan's Small and Medium Enterprise Organization / Chieh-Hsuan Chen -- pt. III. Social Capital in Communities -- 8. Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China / Nan Lin, Dan Ao and Lijun Song -- 9. Distribution and Return of Social Capital in Taiwan / Chih-Jou Jay Chen -- 10. Social Capital in Communities, Development and Integration: The Four Village Case Study in Hungary, 2000 / Robert Tardos -- 11. Distinctiveness and Disadvantage Among the Urban Poor: Is Low Network Capital Really the Problem? / Jeanne S. Hurlbert, John J. Beggs and Valerie A. Haines -- pt. IV. Families and Social Capital -- 12. Parental Closure Effects on Learning: Coleman's Theory of Social Capital on Learning Revisited / Ly-Yun Chang -- 13. Childcare Networks and Embedded Experiences / Joseph Galaskiewicz, Beth M. Duckles and Olga Mayorova -- 14. Immediate Returns on Time Investment in Daily Contacts: Exploring the Network-Overlapping Effects from Contact Diaries / Yang-Chih Fu.

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