Abstract
Although social capital is a relational concept, existing studies have focused less on measuring social relations. This article fills the gap by reviewing recent studies that used network measures grouped into three types according to the measurement level. The first group defined social capital as an individual asset and used node-level measures to explain personal benefits. The second group defined social capital as a collective asset and used graph-level measures to describe collective properties. The third group used subgraph-level measures to explain the development of social capital. This article offers a link between the concepts and measures of social capital.
Highlights
Humans are social animals who engage in social relations to achieve individual or collective goals (Tomasello 2014)
Social capital is a relational concept because people access and mobilize social resources through relationships with others
Dempwolf and Lyles (2012) made a critical contribution to the planning literature published in this journal, arguing the usefulness of social network analysis as a method for investigating structural components of social capital
Summary
Humans are social animals who engage in social relations to achieve individual or collective goals (Tomasello 2014). The concept of social capital has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners in many fields of social sciences (Adler and Kwon 2002), including in the planning discipline (Gualini 2002; Healey 1997; Innes et al 1994; Osborne, Baldwin, and Thomsen 2016; Mandarano 2009; Wilson 1997). One cause for this increased attention is the emergence of new forms of communicative planning. Social capital is regarded as a public good that needs to be developed and maintained to provide the essential conditions for collective action (Gualini 2002; Healey et al 2003)
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