BACKGROUND Studies on social capital and health outcomes have become common, but the relationship between neighborhood social capital and sleep duration by gender is still unclear. We examined the relationship between neighborhood social capital and sleep duration by gender in adults living in a rural community in Japan. METHOD We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 12,321 residents aged ≥2...

IS/business alignment is an ongoing concern for both IS and other senior managers. Although it is often seen as a progression towards alignment, then full integration, of IS plans and business plans there is increasing evidence that the social dimension of alignment, or IS/business integration, is an equally important aspect. So far there has been no overriding theory for the social dimension o...

Concerning about the social relationship is an important issue in classic and contemporary sociology. The contemporary sociologists employ the concept of social capital to study  the quality and quantity of social relationship within the society. Social capital refers to the capital and resources which people can gain by having ties with each others. For this reason, researchers seek to identif...

Purpose: Second Life is a user-created online virtual world, which is a place where people with shared interests can meet and be together and share information. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Second Life communities foster and nurture social capital, whether social capital within Second Life is related to social capital outside the virtual world, whether some characteristic...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate whether social capital could alleviate health inequality against racial discrimination and identify the critical nature of social capital that generates health inequality differences within the social context of South Korea. METHODS Using the data of the 2009 National Survey of Multicultural Families, a nationally representative sample in which 40,430 f...

Older adults (aged 65+) are still less likely to adopt the Internet when compared to other age groups, although their usage is increasing. To explore the societal effects of Internet usage, scholars have been using social capital as an analytical tool. Social capital pertains to the resources that are potentially available in one's social ties. As the Internet becomes a prominent source of info...

S capital has gained wide acceptability as a fruitful theoretical perspective for understanding and predicting the norms and social relations embedded in the social structures of societies. It is these patterns of social interrelationships that enable people to coordinate action to achieve desired goals (Putnam, 1993). Bourdieu, a French sociologist, was one of the first authors to analyze syst...