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Social Capital Theory can be defined as a theoretical framework that explores the relationships and networks within a society that contribute to improvements in various aspects of health, environment, and development. It encompasses the concepts of social interaction, collective action, and the role of social processes in influencing health ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Social capital facilitates knowledge movement within social networks along three dimensions: a) structural, i.e., the formal arrangements through which network members are connected; b) cognitive, i.e., shared meaning and understanding between network members; and c) relational, i.e., interpersonal connections between network members such as trust, expectations and obligations (Carpenter et al., 2012, Inkpen and Tsang, 2005). The multiple ways through which social capital affects knowledge ...
Social Capital. In subject area: Social Sciences. Social capital refers to the sum of resources that individuals or groups possess through durable networks of relationships, enabling them to act collectively and effectively pursue shared objectives. AI generated definition based on: International Journal of Information Management, 2018.
Jan 1, 2000 · Social Capital, in Metaphor and Network Structure. Cast in diverse styles of argument (e.g. Coleman, 1990, Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992, Burt, 1992, Putnam, 1993), social capital is a metaphor about advantage. Society can be viewed as a market in which people exchange all variety of goods and ideas in pursuit of their interests.
Jan 1, 2024 · Second, some studies have been conducted on the impact of social capital on residents' environmentally friendly behaviors; however, they mainly focus on the impact of social capital on a specific environmentally friendly behavior, e.g., residents' waste classification environmental behavior (Hua et al., 2021) or the behavior of burning straw (Zheng and Luo, 2022). Different types of environmentally friendly behaviors are less frequently mentioned in the same framework.
Sep 1, 2024 · Research has found that social capital resides in social ties and provides individuals with access to competitive advantage (Levien, 2015). It takes a multi-dimensional approach where social capital, such as bonding and bridging capital, is considered to access different types of resources through strong and weak ties ( Martínez-Pérez et al., 2021 ; Muringani et al., 2021 ).
Sep 1, 2018 · Social capital is defined as the resources –for example, the exchange of favors, the maintenance of group norms, the stocks of trust, and the exercise of sanctions– available to members of social groups. A social group can take different forms, such as a workplace, a voluntary organization, or a tightly-knit residential community.
Jan 15, 2024 · The use of these sites has been associated with higher levels of social capital or the benefits enabled by the existence of a social structure [6]. These benefits include bridging social capital or access to the latest information through various acquaintances and binding social capital or emotional support from close people [1]. Moreover ...
Nov 1, 2013 · More specifically, we are interested in two forms of online social capital: (1) perceived online bridging social capital and (2) perceived online bonding social capital (cf. Chang and Zhu, 2012, Putnam, 2000, Williams, 2006). Whereas the former facilitates the dissemination of information and solidarity within rather weak ties and is likely to lead to social and political participation, the latter is found within homogenous networks of like-minded people and is likely to result in emotional ...
Jun 1, 2005 · Economists show an increased interest in the role of social capital in relation to economic development. Building on the pioneering work of Kormendi and Meguire (1985), Baumol (1986), Grier and Tullock (1989), Barro (1991) and Mankiw et al. (1992), growth empirics has turned to the role of institutions and culture (Temple, 1999, Temple and Johnson, 1998), presently crystallizing around the concept of social capital (see, e.g., Durlauf, 2002a for an introduction to a symposium on social ...