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Social Capital Theory: Towards a Methodological Foundation

By Julia Häuberer (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Year
2011
ISBN
978-3-531-17626-0, 978-3-531-92646-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-531-92646-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1710267 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
330\315
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-22 00:24:09
Sociology; Sociology

Description

The field of social capital still lacks a recognized general theory. Accordingly, various and sometimes inappropriate measurements are used for it. Julia Häuberer contributes to filling in this gap and provides progress towards the creation of a formalized social capital theory based on the founding concepts of social capital of Bourdieu (1983) and Coleman (1988), and current concepts of Putnam (2000), Burt (1992) and Lin (2001). The second part of the monograph focuses on the quality of measurements of the more general concept of social capital derived in the first part. Therefore, the telephone survey “Social Relationships among Czech Citizens” conducted as a test-retest experiment is analyzed. This book is valuable reading for academics in Sociology and Political Science.

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