Social Capital as Process: The Meanings and Problems of a Theoretical Metaphor

By C. Bankston, Min Zhou. 2002

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The role of social capital in encouraging residents' pro-environmental behaviors in community-based ecotourism (2014, background): “Generally, this concept serves to describe how people in a specific group interact with each other (Brunie, 2009; Harpham et al., 2002; Jones, 2005), as well as how such interactions bring benefits for both individuals and the collective (Bankston & Zhou, 2002; Brunie, 2009; Jones, 2005).”
The Economic Returns of Immigrants’ Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands 1 (2010, background): “Immigrants are often characterized as having a distinct ‘ethnic’ social network, for example the networks of ethnic entrepreneurs or ‘enclave’ economies (Kloosterman and Rath 2001; Kloosterman, Van der Leun, and Rath 1999; Sanders and Nee 1987), the interrelatedness of ethnic (civic) organizations (”
Can trust in politicians explain individuals' support for climate policy? The case of CO2 tax (2006, background): “Although widely contested (Bankston and Zhou, 2002; Fine, 2001; Portes, 1998; Robison et al., 2002), social capital usually refers to two different aspects: degree of social networking and degree of generalized trust (e.g. Putnam et al., 1993; cf. Stolle, 2001; Wuthnow, 1998).”