The concept of social capital is widely used in the social sciences and has, to an extent, been applied to the lives and social networks of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (hereafter LGB) adults. Developing existing research, this paper argues that while not without its problems, the concept of social capital enriches our understanding of these networks, whilst simultaneously deconstructing the...

social capital can improve industrial growth via different mechanisms. in this study, taking the improvement of technology through social capital as one of the mechanisms, we have analyzed the effect of social capital on industrial growth theoretically and empirically. according to the findings of the article, derived from our cointegration model, and iranian economic data (1966-2006), social c...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate prospectively the associations between depression and cognitive social capital (social trust, sense of belonging, mutual aid) and structural social capital (volunteer work and community participation). METHODS This was a prospective study that was carried out in the USA. The participants were a nationally representative sample of 724 English-speaking non-institu...

throughout the evolution of organizational behavior sciences in recent years psychologists have this study has been done the aimed to evaluate the status of positive organizational behavior at cultural and industrial organizations of qom province with emphasis on social capital. the statistical population managers and employees of industrial and cultural organizations located in qom. the sample...

in the almost new literature of social capital, the concept has mainly been considered domestic, while we can find social capital beyond state borders. in this article social capital has been connected to international relations through micro and macro aspects. the effect of information technology on social capital is then mentioned on both domestic and transnational scales. information technol...

Sociological research on status attainment has increasingly recognized the role of social networks. The bulk of extant scholarship on networks and stratification, however, deals exclusively with the information and control benefits of network embeddedness. Organizational scholars, on the other hand, have paid increasing attention to another, relatively unexplored, aspect of social networks, whi...

BACKGROUND This study assessed clustering of three health-compromising behaviours and explored the association of neighbourhood and individual social capital with simultaneous health-compromising behaviours and patterns of those behaviours in women in the first trimester of pregnancy (baseline) and during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy (follow-up). METHODS A longitudinal study w...