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Social Capital Theory

Towards a Methodological Foundation

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  1. Julia Häuberer
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  • Towards a Methodological Foundation

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-23
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 25-32

  4. The Quality of Social Capital Measures in the Czech Republic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. How to Assess the Quality of Measurement Tools? - A General Introduction

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 155-169

    3. The Quality Study

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 171-174

    4. Preconditions of Social Capital – The Czech Context

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 175-181

    5. Access to Social Capital I – The Quality of Network Size and Density Measures of Informal and Formal Networks

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 183-201

    6. Access to Social Capital II - The Quality of Measures of Range and Openness/ Structural Holes of Informal and Formal Networks

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 203-221

    7. The Quality of Measures of Accessed Social Capital – Is the Resource Generator Appropriate for the Czech Context?

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 223-248

    8. Summary and Conclusions: What the Study Tells Us and Where it Directs Future Research

      • Julia Häuberer
      Pages 249-256

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 257-330
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Capital Theory

  • Book Subtitle: Towards a Methodological Foundation

  • Authors: Julia Häuberer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92646-9

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-17626-0Published: 27 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-92646-9Published: 27 October 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 330

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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