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      • Nan Lin, Duke University, North Carolina
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      29 January 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511815447
      9780521474313
      9780521521673
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815447
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.525kg, 294 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 294 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Sociology
      Series:
      Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (19)
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Sociology
    Series:
    Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (19)
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    In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in obtaining their objectives. This book places social capital in the family of capital theories (the classical and neo-capital theories), articulates its elements and propositions, presents research programs, findings, and agenda, and theorizes its significance in various moments of interactions between individual actions and social structure (for example, the primordial groups, social exchanges, organizations, institutional transformations and cybernetworks). Nan Lin eloquently introduces a groundbreaking theory that forcefully argues and shows why it is 'who you know', as well as 'what you know' that makes a difference in life and society.

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    '… one of the most rigorous, consistent and empirically informed theoretical analysis of social capital available.'

    Source: Local Government Studies

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