Creation and Returns of Social Capital

By A. Dijkstra, René Veenstra, J. Peschar. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development (2008, unknown): “There are three different ways in which social capital is integrated in mainstream economics: it is perceived as an individual resource owned by individuals or firms (Paldam and Svendsen 2004); it is regarded as an instrument for reducing risks in bargaining and contracting processes (Dasgupta 1999)”
• The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective (2005, background): “As pointed out by Foley and Edwards (1999), empirical studies based on cross-country comparisons of trust may be a “cul de sac”, because of their inability to address macro outcomes, in view of the absence of the broader context within which attitudes are created and determined.”
• Dynamics of Networks if Everyone Strives for Structural Holes1 (2008, background): “If some networks are more beneficial than others, actors can be expected to modify the less beneficial ones to their advantage (Flap 2003, pp. 12–13).”
• LEARNING FROM OTHERS AND RECEIVING SUPPORT: THE IMPACT OF PERSONAL NETWORKS ON FERTILITY INTENTIONS IN POLAND (2005, background): “Network-based social capital provides one source of 362 EUROPEAN SOCIETIES these resources (Bourdieu 1985; Coleman 1990; Astone et al. 1999; Lin 2001; Flap 2002).”
• Education and social capital: empirical evidence from microeconomic analyses (2010, background): “Social capital is considered an important asset for individuals, groups, communities and society because it is related to individual health and socio-economic status, and it affects the crime rate, social cohesion, and social welfare (Portes, 1998; Lin, 2001; Flap and Boxman, 2001; Flap, 2004; Helli”
• Immigrant Self-Employment (2009, background): “Social capital refers to the importance of resources available to a person through his or her social relations (Flap, 1999).”
• Proposals for the measurement of individual social capital (2003, background): “Given our focus on general collections of social capital, this implies that a wide variety of different social resources will need to be covered by the measurement instrument.”