Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415536723 ISBN 13: 9780415536721

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges.

This volume focuses on how social capital interacts with social institutions, based on the premise that markets, communities, and families are the major contexts within which people meet and build up social networks and the foci to create social capital. Featuring innovations in thinking about exchange mechanisms, resource distribution, institutional logics, resource diversity, and the degree of openness or closure of social networks, these chapters present some of the most important advances in this essential field.

Paralleling these theoretical developments, the chapters also improve practical methodological work on social capital research, using new techniques and measurement methods for the uncovering of social logics.

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About the Author

Ray-May Hsung is Professor of Sociology at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

Nan Lin is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA.

Ronald L. Breiger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415536723
• ISBN 13: 9780415536721
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Hsung Ray-May, Lin Nan, Breiger Ronald L.