Social Capital Companion: Capturing Personal Networks as They are Lived.

Social Capital Companion: Capturing Personal Networks as They are Lived

Personal networks are complex variables characterizing the social resources and constraints of individuals and can be used to explain outcome such as behaviour, health, or job performance. Collecting qualitatively rich personal network data, however, is costly and difficulties increase if longitudinal data is needed. In this paper we identify requirements that collected personal network data sh...

Diary methods: capturing life as it is lived.

In diary studies, people provide frequent reports on the events and experiences of their daily lives. These reports capture the particulars of experience in a way that is not possible using traditional designs. We review the types of research questions that diary methods are best equipped to answer, the main designs that can be used, current technology for obtaining diary reports, and appropria...

Modeling Social Capital as Dynamic Networks to Promote Health Equity

Social capital, as comprised of human connections in social networks and their associated benefits, is closely related to the health of individuals, communities, and societies at large. For disadvantaged population groups such as racial/ethnic minorities and older adults, social capital may play a particularly critical role in mitigating the negative effects and reinforcing the positive effects...

Social Capital in Online Social Networks

The problem of social capital in context of the online social networks is presented in the paper. Not only the specific elements, which characterize the single person and influence the individual’s social capital like static social capital, activity component, and social position, but also the ways of stimulation of the social capital are described.

Social Capital in Dynamic Social Networks