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Social Capital$
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Nan Lin and Bonnie Erickson

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199234387

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234387.001.0001

ContentsFRONT MATTER

Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital

Chapter:
(p. 1 ) 1 Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital
Source:
Social Capital
Author(s):

Nan Lin

Bonnie H. Erickson

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234387.003.0010

This chapter presents a brief review of the core theoretical basis of social capital and the standard measurement shared in these works on social capital. It discusses the theoretical developments and examples that are presented in the book, and shows how to measure social capital using the position generator. Finally, it provides a summary of the book's remaining chapters.

Keywords:   social capital, theoretical basis, standard measurement, theoretical developments, position generator

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