Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and ActionIn this work, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in obtaining their objectives. This book places social capital in the family of capital theories (the classical and neo-capital theories), articulates its elements and propositions, presents research programmes, findings and agenda, and theorizes its significance in various moments of interactions between individual actions and social structure (for example, the primordial groups, social exchanges, organizations, institutional transformations, and cybernetworks). Nan Lin introduces a theory that forcefully argues and shows why it is who you know, as well as what you know that makes a difference in life and society. |
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Theories of Capital The Historical Foundation | 3 |
Social Capital Capital Captured through Social Relations | 19 |
Resources Hierarchy Networks and Homophily The Structural Foundation | 29 |
Resources Motivations and Interactions The Action Foundation | 41 |
The Theory and Theoretical Propositions | 55 |
Social Capital and Status Attainment A Research Tradition | 78 |
Inequality in Social Capital A Research Agenda | 99 |
Conceptual Extensions | 125 |
Reputation and Social Capital The Rational Basis for Social Exchange | 143 |
Social Capital in Hierarchical Structures | 165 |
Institutions Networks and Capital Building Societal Transformations | 184 |
Cybernetworks and the Global Village The Rise of Social Capital | 210 |
Epilogue | 241 |
The Future of the Theory | 243 |
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