Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Part I. Social Capital: Networks and Embedded Resources -- 1 Building a Network Theory of Social Capital Nan Lin -- WHAT IS CAPITAL? -- WHY DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL WORK? -- PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROVERSIES IN SOCIAL CAPITAL -- C...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Lin, Nancy (HerausgeberIn), Cook, Karen S. 1946- (HerausgeberIn), Burt, Ronald S. ca. 20. Jh (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York Routledge 2017
Schlagworte:	Sozialkompetenz Arbeitsmarkt Sozialstruktur Soziales Kapital Soziales Handeln Soziales Netzwerk Theorie Social capital (Sociology) Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Part I. Social Capital: Networks and Embedded Resources -- 1 Building a Network Theory of Social Capital Nan Lin -- WHAT IS CAPITAL? -- WHY DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL WORK? -- PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROVERSIES IN SOCIAL CAPITAL -- CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING SOCIAL CAPITAL -- Embedded Resources and Network Locations -- Measuring Social Capital as Assets in Networks -- Sampling Techniques -- MODELING SOCIAL CAPITAL -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 Structural Holes versus Network Closure as Social Capital Ronald S. Burt -- SOCIAL CAPITAL METAPHOR -- TWO NETWORK MECHANISMS -- Structural Holes as Social Capital -- Network Closure as Social Capital -- NETWORK EVIDENCE -- Performance Evaluations -- Promotions -- Compensation -- Other Evidence -- RETHINKING COLEMAN'S EVIDENCE -- A POINT OF INTEGRATION -- Performance Surface -- Frame of Reference for IntegratingResearch Results -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 3 The Position Generator: Measurement Techniques for Investigations of Social Capital Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, and Ray-May Hsung -- TOWARD A THEORY OF SOCIAL CAPITAL -- ACCESS TO EMBEDDED RESOURCES: A PIVOTAL POINTFOR RESEARCH -- MEASURING ACCESSIBILITY: THE POSITION GENERATOR -- THE TAIWAN SOCIAL NETWORKS STUDY -- THE POSITION GENERATOR AND DATA -- INEQUALITY IN ACCESS TO SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ITSDIFFERENTIAL RETURNS -- ACCESS TO SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- DISCUSSION -- APPENDIX A: THE POSITION GENERATOR USED IN T H E 1997TAIWAN STUDY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part II. Social Capital in the Labor Market -- 4 How Much Is That Network Worth? Social Capital in Employee Referral Networks Roberto M. Fernandez and Emilio J. Castilla -- THE FIRM'S INVESTMENT -- THE REFERRER'S PERSPECTIVE -- Data and Measures -- Results -- SUMMARY A N D CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES 5 Interpersonal Ties, Social Capital, and Employer Staffing Practices Peter V. Marsden -- RECRUITING THROUGH SOCIAL TIES: BENEFITS, COSTS,AND CONSTRAINTS -- Information Benefits -- Costs -- Equity Pressures and Other Constraints -- THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS STUDY -- MEASURING STAFFING METHODS -- ORGANIZATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL CORRELATESOF INTERPERSONAL STAFFING -- SUMMARY A N D DISCUSSION -- APPENDIX: MEASUREMENT OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6 Good Networks and Good Jobs: The Value of Social Capital to Employers and Employees Bonnie H. Erickson -- EARLIER RESEARCH -- Employer Hiring Requirements -- Employees and Their Networks -- METHODS -- The Toronto Security Industry and Our Sample -- MEASUREMENTS -- Hiring Requirements -- Employee Social Capital -- Employee Human Capital -- Other Employee Characteristics -- Getting a Job -- RESULTS -- What Employers Want: Hiring Requirements forSecurity Jobs -- What Employers Get: The Actual Social andHuman Capital Reported by Employees -- Social Capital, Human Capital,and Employee Success -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 7 Getting Started: Th eInfluence of Social Capital on the Start of the Occupational Career Henk Flap and Ed Boxman -- THEORETICAL MODEL -- The Employees -- Employers -- The Match -- DESIGN, DATA, AND MEASUREMENTS -- Design and Data -- Measurements -- ANALYSIS A N D RESULTS -- Job Searchers -- Employers -- The Match -- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Part III: Social Capital in Organizational, Community, and Institutional Settings -- 8 Social Capital as Social Mechanisms and Collective Assets: The Example of Status Auctions among Colleagues Emmanuel Lazega and Phillipa E. Pattison -- BRAINSTORMS AND STATUS AUCTIONS INA CORPORATE LAW FIRM -- CULTIVATING AND MITIGATING STATUS COMPETITION -- TOO MANY COOKS? HYPOTHESES ON A TWO-STEPMITIGATION MECHANISM Co-workers' Goodwill, Advice, and "Friendship" -- A Two-Step Social Mechanism -- DATA A N D ANALYSES -- THE COLLEGIAL BLEND OF RELATIONSHIPS:A TYPICAL PATTERN -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A: SOCIOMETRIC NAME GENERATORS USED TOELICIT CO-WORKERS, ADVICE, A N D ROLE-DISTANCE TIES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Social Networks and Social Capital in Extreme Environments Jeanne S. Hurlbert, John J. Beggs, and Valerie A. Haines -- SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INHURRICANE ANDREW -- Social Networks and Social Support -- DATA AND MEASURES-THE HURRICANE ANDREW SAMPLE -- Data -- RESULTS -- SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INTHE UNDERCLASS -- Social Capital and Social Isolation -- DATA A N D MEASURES-THE UNDERCLASS SAMPLE -- Data -- Measures -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 Network Capital in a Multilevel World: Getting Support from Personal Communities Barry Wellman and Kenneth Frank -- TIES A N D NETWORKS -- Bases of Support -- Support Comes from Ties and Networks -- The Usefulness of a Multilevel Approach -- MULTILEVEL MODELS FOR TIES NESTED INEGO-CENTERED NETWORKS -- Research Approach -- STUDYING THE NETWORK SOURCES OF SUPPORT -- Data Collection -- Independent Variables -- Measuring Social Support -- WHICH CHARACTERISTICS OF TIES AND NETWORKSAFFECT SUPPORT -- TOWARD A MULTILEVEL THEORY OF NETWORK CAPITAL -- Comparing Multilevel with Single-Level Findings -- Capitalizing on Networks -- Dyadic Duets and Emergent Structural Properties -- Living Networked in a Networked World -- TECHNICAL APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 Guanxi Capital and Social Eating in Chinese Cities: Theoretical Models and Empirical Analyses Yanjie Bian -- THREE MODELS OF GUANXI CAPITAL -- Guanxi as the Web of ExtendedFamilial Obligations -- Guanxi as Exchange Networks of ParticularInstrumental Ties -- Guanxi as Social-Exchange Networks ofAsymmetric Transactions
Beschreibung:	First published 2001 by Transaction Publishers
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xii, 333 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781315129457
DOI:	10.4324/9781315129457