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Contexts Of Social Capital
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Author : Ray-May Hsung
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Contexts Of Social Capital written by Ray-May Hsung and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Contemporary Perspectives On Social Capital In Educational Contexts
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Author : RoSusan D. Bartee
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Contemporary Perspectives On Social Capital In Educational Contexts written by RoSusan D. Bartee and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with Education categories.
This volume explores social capital as a means to create external access and internal accountability in K-12 and higher education. It examines social capital through themes like human connectedness, strategic advocacy, intentional engagement, and culturally-responsive leadership. The goal is to promote egalitarian access and accountability.
Assessing Social Capital
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Author : Rosalind Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Assessing Social Capital written by Rosalind Edwards and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social capital (Sociology) categories.
This collection brings together contributions that assess social capital in a number of contexts. It examines social capital as a theoretical concept, its shaping of policy development, and its practices in research and everyday life.
Contexts Of Social Capital
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Author : Ray-May Hsung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Contexts Of Social Capital written by Ray-May Hsung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Social Capital
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Author : Viva Ona Bartkus
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Social Capital written by Viva Ona Bartkus and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
For this book Bartkus and Davis assembled the social capital equivalent of the New York Yankees slugger s row of the 1950s, recruiting some of the best Hall of Fame hitters around along with a number of future stars still early in their careers. The result is a good reflection of the current state of the literature on social capital. Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, US Social capital is widely used and sometimes mis-used by scholars, policymakers, and the general public. The time has come for thoughtful reflection, synthesis, and informed criticism regarding this important concept. Bartkus and Davis have developed a ground-breaking collection of essays exploring the ideas and evidence underpinning social capital. Denise M. Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University, US At heart, social capital is a simple concept that relationships matter. Bartkus and Davis foster a vibrant debate among leading scholars as to the critical definition, creation, and consequences of social capital. I commend Bartkus and Davis for their interdisciplinary efforts, for there is no more important challenge facing the social sciences today than the exploration of trust and social capital in our society. Father Theodore Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame, US Social capital has taken the social sciences by storm yet remains fraught with controversy. Despite its complexity and conceptual difficulties, the persistent interest in social capital arises from the fact that it helps us make sense of why people do what they do. This book showcases new innovative research in economics, politics, sociology, and management regarding the topic. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines present ground-breaking new research exploring the still-undiscovered value of social capital. The book employs a self-consciously multi-disciplinary approach to address two objectives: reaching out and reaching in. Through theoretical and empirical scholarship, the authors explore the many contexts in which the phenomenon can have impact. In effect, social capital research reaches out to issues of economic well-being, civic participation, educational achievement, knowledge and norm formation, and competitive advantage. Further, the authors investigate the many connections between the core themes of social capital and the pillars on which it rests, including structural networks, cognition, relationships and trust. This book is fundamentally about bridging bridging across disciplines, units of analysis, and themes. Scholars, students, and other interested readers from the social sciences and management will find this book challenging and illuminating.
Black Social Capital
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Author : Marion Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Black Social Capital written by Marion Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
Deindustrialization, white flight, and inner city poverty have spelled trouble for Baltimore schools. Marion Orr now examines why school reform has been difficult to achieve there, revealing the struggles of civic leaders and the limitations placed on Baltimore's African-American community as each has tried to rescue a failing school system. Examining the interplay between government and society, Orr presents the first systematic analysis of social capital both within the African-American community ("black social capital") and outside it where social capital crosses racial lines. Orr shows that while black social capital may have created solidarity against white domination in Baltimore, it hampered African-American leaders' capacity to enlist the cooperation from white corporate elites and suburban residents needed for school reform. Orr examines social capital at the neighborhood level, in elite-level interactions, and in intergovernmental relations to argue that black social capital doesn't necessarily translate into the kind of intergroup coalition needed to bring about school reform. He also includes an extensive historical survey of the black community, showing how distrust engendered by past black experiences has hampered the formation of significant intergroup social capital. The book features case studies of school reform activity, including the first analysis of the politics surrounding Baltimore's decision to hire a private, for-profit firm to operate nine of its public schools. These cases illuminate the paradoxical aspects of black social capital in citywide school reform while offering critical perspectives on current debates about privatization, site-based management, and other reform alternatives. Orr's book challenges those who argue that social capital alone can solve fundamentally political problems by purely social means and questions the efficacy of either privatization or black community power to reform urban schools. Black Social Capital offers a cogent conceptual synthesis of social capital theory and urban regime theory that demonstrates the importance of government, politics, and leadership in converting social capital into a resource that can be mobilized for effective social change.
The Political Consequences Of Social Capital
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Author : Ronald La Due Lake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Political Consequences Of Social Capital written by Ronald La Due Lake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political participation categories.
The tradition of studying public opinion, attitudes, and political behavior is rooted in a sociological approach that regards these phenomena as the function of the social characteristics of discrete individuals. Advances in the literature have developed the notion of citizens' organizational and civic capacity, yet remain analytically focused on the individual. This dissertation presents a renewed sociological conceptualization that incorporates social interaction, social networks, and social capital into a framework that allows a citizens' social connectedness (or embeddedness) to be an integral part of models of their political behavior. Specifically, this dissertation addresses the analytical utility of social capital for political science in three crucial areas of interest: civic and political participation, political attitudes, and trust. This research uniquely places the question of the political consequences of social capital in an analysis of networks of social interaction. I focus on the characteristics of personal networks and the larger social environment—in addition to individual traits—in order to understand the enhancing effects of social capital on individually-held characteristics such as education, income, and membership in organizations. The central thesis of my work is that social capital, the by-product of social interaction that productively makes “the achievement of certain ends that would not be attainable in its absence” (Coleman 1990:302), is mediated by the particular circumstances of a person's embeddedness in their larger social environment. I demonstrate that the production of politically relevant social capital in citizens' personal networks significantly predicts their engagement in civic and political activities, using a method of directly measuring social capital as a resource for the individual. Further, I find evidence for the importance of analytically distinguishing trust as one type of social capital, rather than as its sole definition. I also explore the boundaries of the usefulness of the concept in terms of understanding the strength of basic political attitudes. With this approach, existing models of engagement are enhanced by understanding the “specificities of the networks through which individuals are mobilized” Verba, Schlozman & Brady 1995:134).
Social Capital
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Author : John Field
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003
Social Capital written by John Field and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
This is an indispensable introduction to the topic which explains the theoretical underpinning of the subject, the empirical work that has been done to explore its operation and the effect that it has had on policy making."--Jacket.
Social Capital And Urban Networks Of Trust
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Author : Jouni Häkli
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Social Capital And Urban Networks Of Trust written by Jouni Häkli and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Science categories.
This is the first book on social capital and trust informed by a critical geographical perspective. The authors examine the role of social capital in the constitution and reproduction of urban networks of trust in different places and contexts. They explore how social capital and trust are reflected in the capacity of these networks to achieve their goals and to deliver specific forms of urban development in a number of Finnish and Italian cities. Finland and Italy present, in many ways, two almost paradigmatic cases of how social capital and trust can work in extremely different and yet very effective ways in the production of the urban. They are two almost ideal laboratories for experimenting new definitions and new understandings of the concepts in question.
Social Capital
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Author : Nan Lin
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Social Capital written by Nan Lin and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Psychology categories.
Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support, help, and information from other people. Expanding on concepts originally formulated by Pierre Bourdieu and James Coleman, this seminal work will find an essential place with educators and students in the fields of social networks, rational choice theory, institutions, and the socioeconomics of poverty, labor markets, social psychology, and race. The volume is divided into three parts. The first segment clarifies social capital as a concept and explores its theoretical and operational bases. Additional segments provide brief accounts that place the development of social capital in the context of the family of capital theorists, and identify some critical but controversial perspectives and statements regarding social capital in the literature. The editors then make the argument for the network perspective, why and how such a perspective can clarify controversies and advance our understanding of a whole range of instrumental and expressive outcomes. Social Capital further provides a forum for ongoing research programs initiated by social scientists working at the crossroads of formal theory and new methods. These scholars and programs share certain understandings and approaches in their analyses of social capital. They argue that social networks are the foundation of social capital. Social networks simultaneously capture individuals and social structure, thus serving as a vital conceptual link between actions and structural constraints, between micro- and macro-level analyses, and between relational and collective dynamic processes. They are further cognizant of the dual significance of the "structural" features of the social networks and the "resources" embedded in the networks as defining elements of social capital. Nan Lin is professor of sociology, Duke University. Karen Cook is Ray Lyman Wilber Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Stanford University. Ronald S. Burt is Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.