Social CapitalAn International Research Program

Abstract

1. Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital PART I: THE POSITION GENERATOR METHODOLOGY: ITS RELIABILITY, VALIDITY AND VARIATION 2. Position generator measures and their relationship to other Social Capital measures 3. Position Generator and Actual Networks in Everyday Life: An Evaluation with Contact Diary 4. Social, cultural, and economic capital and job attainment: The position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources 5. The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence PART II: MOBILIZATION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL 6. The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study 7. Social Resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course 8. A Question of Access or Mobilization? Understanding Inefficacious Job Referral Networks among the Black Poor PART III: SOCIAL CAPITAL, CIVIL ENGAGEMENT, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, AND TRUST 9. 9. Social Networks of Participants in Voluntary Associations 10. The Internet, Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Gender in Japan 11. Social Capital of Personnel Managers: the Causes and Return of Position-Generated Networks and the Participation in Voluntary Associations 12. It's Not Only Who You Know, It's Also Where They Are: Using the Position 12. Generator to Investigate the Structure of Access to Embedded Resources 13. Gender, Network Capital, Social Capital and Political Capital: The Consequences of Personal Network Diversity for Environmentalists in British Columbia. 14. Civic Participation and Social Capital: A Social Network Analysis in Two American Counties PART IV: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND INEQUALITY IN SOCIAL CAPITAL 15. Marriage, Gender, and Social Capital 16. Access to Social Capital and Status Attainment in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences 17. Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 18. Assessing Social Capital and Attainment Dynamics - position-generator (pg)-applications in Hungary, 1987-2003 References Index