Results 321 to 330 of about 12,178,216 (394)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Conceptualizing Social Capital among Young People: Towards a New Theory

Children, Youth and Environments, 2023
:The concept of social capital has gained more recognition in the past few decades but has created conceptual confusion due to varying uses of the term by different writers.
Nicole J. Schaefer-McDaniel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social capital [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of ...
Hans Westlund, Kamila Borsekova
core   +9 more sources

Social Capital as a Driver of Social Entrepreneurship

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2021
Social entrepreneurship is a field widely explored from multiple perspectives and within multiple academic disciplines. In parallel, practitioners have applied social entrepreneurship principles to multiple sectors and on multiple levels.
Gisele Hidalgo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Media Social Capital, Offline Social Capital, and Citizenship: Exploring Asymmetrical Social Capital Effects

Political Communication, 2016
In pursuit of a healthier and participatory democracy, scholars have long established the positive effects of social capital, values derived from resources embedded in social ties with others which characterize the structure of opportunity and action in communities.
Gil de Zuniga, Homero   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Social Capital and Capital Structure

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
I demonstrate that in the context of a Modigliani-Miller-type model that a firm financing social capital and physical capital will favor equity financing over debt financing without bankruptcy. With bankruptcy, debt financing will be used, but equity financing will be favored by firms that use large amounts of social capital, as it will increase their ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Social capital

Development in Practice, 2007
In parallel with, and as a complement to, globalisation, 'social capital' has enjoyed a meteoric rise across the social sciences over the last two decades. Not surprisingly, it has been particularly prominent across development studies, not least through heavy promotion by the World Bank.
openaire   +2 more sources

The third digital divide and Bourdieu: Bidirectional conversion of economic, cultural, and social capital to (and from) digital capital among young people in Madrid

New Media & Society, 2020
Based on Bourdieu’s theory, this article focuses on the third-level digital divide in relation to offline outcomes of Internet use. Based on 30 in-depth qualitative interviews with young people in Madrid, we analyzed the mechanisms used to convert three ...
Daniel Calderón Gómez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Awakening social capital

Nursing Outlook, 2002
It is evident that the September 11, 2001, losses and tragedies have awakened investments in people, relationships, civic pride, and community building. The cascading consequences of September 11 will continue to have future effects. One effect is increased attention to social capital as a means to build and sustain communities.
openaire   +2 more sources

Capital in the twenty-first century: a multidimensional approach to the history of capital and social classes.

British Journal of Sociology, 2013
I am most grateful to the editors of the British Journal of Sociology for putting together such an impressive set of review papers about my book. I am very honoured by the very thoughtful essays written by such a distinguished group of scholars coming ...
T. Piketty
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social capital: Neither social, nor capital

Social Science Information, 2014
Its enormous popularity across the social sciences notwithstanding, the concept of social capital is seriously flawed. More specifically, it is a misnomer; it does not capture the entire extent of the social and has nothing to do with capital in the proper sense of the word.
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy