TY - BOOK ID - 52576073 TI - Contexts of social capital AU - Hsung, Ray-May AU - Lin, Nan AU - Breiger, Ronald L PY - 2009 SN - 0415411173 0415536723 9786611931179 1134220758 1281931179 0203890094 9780203890097 9781134220755 9780415411172 9781134220700 9781134220748 9780415536721 PB - New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Social action. KW - Social capital (Sociology) KW - Social networks. KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Capital, Social (Sociology) KW - Sociology KW - Social policy KW - Social problems KW - Social capital (Sociology). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52576073 AB - 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, r ER -