Social Capital Theory

Towards a Methodological Foundation
With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hynek Jerábek
ISBN: 978-3-531-17626-0
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Häuberer, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Social Capital Concepts: The Founding Concepts of Social Capital - Introducing the Civic Perspective on Social Capital - The Network Approach to Social Capital - The Resource Perspective - Formalizing and Visualizing the Current Social Capital Theory; The Quality of Social Capital Measures in the Czech Republic: How to Assess the Quality of Measurement Tools?: The Quality Study - Preconditions of Social Capital - Access to Social Capital I - Access to Social Capital II - The Quality of Measures of Accessed Social Capital

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Häuberer holds a doctoral degree from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her research interests are social capital and empirical social research, social distance, network analysis and social justice.