Creation and Returns of Social Capital

ISBN-13: 9780415300599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 304 str.

Henk Flap; Beate Volker

Opis

An important new contribution to the social sciences is the idea of social capital. Social capital consists of the resources that are embedded within people's social networks. Validated by empirical research, this book presents social capital research as an integrated theoretical research programme. The programme consists of two hypotheses. The social capital hypothesis holds that those with better social capital are better able to realise their ends. And according to the investment hypothesis people invest in ties to the degree that these are instrumental in achieving their ends. The volume is organised into six sections, each addressing a fundamental issue in the research programme. Firstly, the research programme is described. The second section presents the distribution of social capital among citizens of different societies using large-scale social surveys. In the third section experimental and simulation studies show how social capital is created. The fourth section analyses various returns of social capital such as educational and occupational attainment and performance at work. The fifth issue is how social capital should be measured in a more standardised way. And finally

Spis treści

Preface Part I: Introduction to the Programme 1. Creation and Returns of Social Capital. A New Research Programme Henk Flap Part II: The Distribution of Social Capital 2. The Distribution of Gendered Social Capital in Canada Bonnie Erickson 3. Does Social Capital Offset Social and Economic Inequalities? Social Capital in Everyday Life Alain Degenne, Mari Odile Lebeaux and Yannick Lemel Part III: The Creation of Social Capital 4. Information and the Creation and Return of Social Capital: An Experimental Study Arno Riedl and Frans van Winden 5. Social Capital in Exchange Networks: A Simulation Study of Network Evolution Phil Bonacich Part IV: The Returns of Social Capital 6. Social Capital in Education. Functional Communities Around High Schools in the Netherlands Anne Bert Dykstra, René 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 Völker and Henk Flap Part V: Measurement of Social Capital 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 Part VI: Social Capital at the Collective Level 11. Social Capital and Economics Martin Paldam and Geert Tinggaard Svendsen 12. Role and Rise of Social Capital Michel Forsé Notes on the contributors

O autorze

Henk Flap, Beate Völker