Contexts of Social Capital

Titel: Contexts of Social Capital : Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families
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Veröffentlicht: London ˜[u.a.]œ : Routledge, 2009
Umfang: 357 S. : Tab.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Routledge Advances in Sociology ; 43
ISBN: 9780415411172 ; 0415411173
  • List of Tables
  • p. xi
  • List of Figures
  • p. xvii
  • List of Abbreviations
  • p. xix
  • Preface
  • p. xxi
  • Part 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
  • p. 3
  • 2
  • Changing Places: The Influence of Meeting Places on Recruiting Friends
  • p. 28
  • 3
  • Does The Golden Rule Rule?
  • p. 49
  • 4
  • Making Democracy Work via the Functioning of Heterogeneous Personal Networks: An Empirical Analysis Based on a Japanese Election Study
  • p. 72
  • Part II
  • Markets and Social Capital
  • 5
  • The Context Challenge: Generalizing Social Capital Processes Across Two Different Settings
  • p. 93
  • 6
  • The Transaction Cost: Embeddedness Approach to Studying Chinese Outsourcing
  • p. 115
  • 7
  • Constructed Network as Social Capital: The Transformation of Taiwan's Small and Medium Enterprise Organization
  • p. 139
  • Part III
  • Social Capital in Communities
  • 8
  • Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China
  • p. 163
  • 9
  • The Distribution and Return of Social Capital in Taiwan
  • p. 193
  • 10
  • Social Capital in Communities, Development and Integration: The Four Village Case Study in Hungary, 2000
  • p. 216
  • 11
  • Distinctiveness and Disadvantage Among the Urban Poor: Is Low Network Capital Really the Problem?
  • p. 244
  • Part IV
  • Families and Social Capital
  • 12
  • Parental Closure Effects on Learning: Coleman's Theory of Social Capital on Learning Revisited
  • p. 277
  • 13
  • Childcare Networks and Embedded Experiences
  • p. 299
  • 14
  • The Immediate Returns on Time Investment in Daily Contacts: Exploring the Network-Overlapping Effects from Contact Diaries
  • p. 327
  • Contributors
  • p. 349
  • Index
  • p. 351