Social capital : an international research program / edited by Nan Lin and Bonnie H. Erickson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-445) and index.

Theory, measurement, and the research enterprise on social capital / Nan Lin, Bonnie H. Erickson -- Position generator measures and their relationship to other social capital measures / Martin van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Flap -- Position generator and actual networks in everyday life : an evaluation with contact diary / Yang-chih Fu -- Social, cultural, and economic capital, and job attainment : the position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources / Henk Flap, Beate Völker -- The formation of social capital among Chinese urbanites : theoretical explanation and empirical evidence / Yanjie Bian -- The invisible hand of social capital : an exploratory study / Nan Lin, Dan Ao -- Social resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course / Hester Moerbeek, Henk Flap -- A question of access or mobilization? Understanding inefficacious job referral networks among the Black poor / Sandra Susan Smith -- Social networks of participants in voluntary associations / Rene Bekkers, Beate Volker, Martin van der Gaag, Henk Flap -- The Internet, social capital, civic engagement, and gender in Japan / Kakuko Miyata, Ken'ichi Ikeda, Tetsuro Kobayashi -- Social capital of personnel managers : the causes and return of position-generated networks and the participation in voluntary associations / Ray-May Hsung, Yi-Jr Lin -- It's not only who you know, it's also where they are : using the position generator to investigate the structure of access to embedded resources / Sandra Enns, Todd Malinick, Ralph Matthews -- Gender, network capital, social capital, and political capital : the consequences of personal network diversity for environmentalists in British Columbia / D. B. Tindall, Jeffrey J. Cormier -- Civic participation and social capital : a social network analysis in two American counties / Marc Porter Magee -- Why some occupations are better known than others / Bonnie H. Erickson -- Marriage, gender, and social capital / Gina Lai -- Access to social capital and status attainment in the United States : racial/ethnic, and gender differences / Jennifer L. Moren Cross, Nan Lin -- Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia / Catherine A. Johnson -- Assessing social capital and attainment dynamics : position generator applications in Hungary, 1987-2003 / Róbert Angelusz, Róbert Tardos.