05549oam 2200769I 450 991045074250332120200520144314.01-134-49515-31-280-17527-397866101752770-203-64364-X10.4324/9780203643648 (CKB)1000000000448114(EBL)3060696(SSID)ssj0000132024(PQKBManifestationID)11157200(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132024(PQKBWorkID)10027561(PQKB)10003172(MiAaPQ)EBC3060696(Au-PeEL)EBL3060696(CaPaEBR)ebr10272917(CaONFJC)MIL17527(OCoLC)922957377(OCoLC)958106006(EXLCZ)99100000000044811420180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCreation and returns of social capital a new research program /edited by Henk Flap and Beate VolkerLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (241 p.)Routledge advances in sociology ;9Papers presented at a conference of international scholars in Amsterdam, held in 1999, and organized around the research of the SCALE research program supported by a grant from NWO [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek], project number 510-05-0200.1-138-88009-4 0-415-30059-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Notes on the contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Part I Introduction to the program""; ""1 Creation and returns of social capital ""; ""The history of the social capital idea""; ""The theoretical backbone of the program""; ""The concept of social capital""; ""State of the art: the program works""; ""A research agenda of theoretically inspired problems""; ""(a) What are the main constituents of social capital and how are they distributed?""; ""(b) How do various effects of a person�s social capital depend on its constituents?""""(c) How do social resources interact with other resources?""""(d) How is social capital created and maintained?""; ""(e) How do contact opportunities influence the rise of social capital?""; ""(f) What is the effect of social institutions on social capital?""; ""(g) How are �property rights� of social capital defined?""; ""(h) How does social capital contribute to social inequality and cohesion?""; ""(i) What is the mechanism behind the productivity of social capital?""; ""(j) How should social capital be measured?""; ""Concluding remarks ""; ""Note""; ""References""""Part II The distribution of social capital""""2 The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada ""; ""Why should we study gendered social capital?""; ""The formation of gendered social capital""; ""The data and measures""; ""The data sources""; ""Measures of social capital""; ""Predictors of social capital""; ""Results""; ""Basic facts about gender and social capital""; ""Social capital: a life-course approach""; ""Ascribed characteristics""; ""Education""; ""Work""; ""Household income""; ""Family life""; ""Voluntary associations""; ""Social capital and kinds of places""""Atlantic Canada""""Urban versus rural""; ""Social capital for the whole sample""; ""Social capital for men and women""; ""Conclusions""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""3 Does social capital offset social and economic inequalities? ""; ""The volume and structure of social capital as a resource""; ""Data""; ""The survey""; ""The name generator""; ""Household differentiation variables""; ""Main findings""; ""One-/two-way support""; ""Kin and non-kin exchange""; ""Palliative economic effects of support networks?""; ""Capital accumulation""; ""Support and living standards""""Are there any utilitarian attitudes to support?""""Discussion: the social capital metaphor""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part III The creation of social capital""; ""4 Information and the creation and return of social capital ""; ""The experimental method and social capital""; ""The experiment""; ""The public good game""; ""Dictator game""; ""Treatment variable�information""; ""Research hypotheses: creation and returns of social capital""; ""The creation of social capital""; ""The returns of social capital investment""; ""Results""; ""Behavior in the public good game""""Behavior of dictators and non-dictators""Routledge advances in sociology ;9.Social capital (Sociology)CongressesSocial networksCongressesSocial capital (Sociology)ResearchMethodologyCongressesSocial networksResearchMethodologyCongressesElectronic books.Social capital (Sociology)Social networksSocial capital (Sociology)ResearchMethodologySocial networksResearchMethodology30271.49bclFlap Hendrik Derk1950-987486Volker Beate1963-987487MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450742503321Creation and returns of social capital2257263UNINA