Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital

Edited by Steve McDonald, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, US, Rochelle Côté, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and Jing Shen, Research Affiliate, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto, Canada

‘The Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital admirably achieves its editors’ goals of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness and usefulness. Rather than attempting to define the concept of social capital, the editors embrace its multi-level, sprawling meaning in 28 chapters that cover the field, with authors from every continent and a multitude of disciplines. It should be useful for established scholars and those just entering the field.’

• Contents1 Introduction: connecting social capital with studies of social inequality 1Rochelle Côté, Steve McDonald, and Jing ShenPART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS2 Formalist and relationalist approaches to social capital 10Emily Erikson and Jeffrey Sachs3 Revisiting social capital and social network research: inequality insocial relations and structure 22Steve McDonald, Andrew P. Davis, and Jing Shen4 The intersectionality of social capital 37Bonnie H. Erickson5 Approaches to the measurement of individual social capital in generalsocial surveys 51Christof Wolf, Marlène Sapin, and Dominique Joye6 Qualitative cross-national comparisons of networking practices andexperiences: exploring similarities and differences in white-collarnetworking in Israel, Denmark and the United States 68Ofer Sharone7 Geospatial inequality of social capital: comparing the effects ofopportunity structures across regions and over time 81Yang-chih Fu and Hui-Ju KuoPART II GEMEINSCHAFT – SOCIAL CAPITAL AS COMMUNITY8 Social capital changes through life course events 100Beate Völker9 Social capital, health, health inequalities and well-being: a criticalreview and future directions 117Padmore Adusei Amoah10 Culture and social capital 140Omar Lizardo11 The role of social capital and social media in social inequality 157Anabel Quan-Haase, William Hollingshead, and Molly-Gloria Patel12 Institutional foundations of social capital 173Maximilian Filsinger and Markus Freitag13 Social capital and voluntary associations 187Joonmo Son14 Organization-based social capital and inequity in disaster recovery planning 204Malini Roy and Michelle Annette Meyer15 Social capital and social movements: creating and accessing resourcesthrough social structures 221David Tindall, Mark Shakespear, and Bob Edwards16 Social support: a diverse, multilevel, unequal resource 240Christine A. Mair17 That’s what friends are for: can social capital help us better understandthe diversity of friendship ties and their complex roles in personal networks? 256Shira Offer18 The ties that bond? Social capital in families 271Mikaela J. Dufur, Tom R. Leppard, and Brianna K. MoodiePART III GESELLSCHAFT – SOCIAL CAPITAL ASINSTRUMENTAL RESOURCE19 The role of social capital in immigrants’ and refugees’ labour marketintegration: evidence from Germany 288Yuliya Kosyakova and Irena Kogan20 Social capital and academic success 305Nathan D. Martin and Stacey M. Alvarez Flores21 Mentoring: ensuring all youth have the networks of support needed forhealthy development 319Grace Gowdy and Renée Spencer22 Social capital and network processes in the making of social classinequality: debates, concepts and measurement 333Vicente Espinoza and Gabriel Otero23 Social mobility and social capital 351Mark Western and Xianbi Huang24 Inter- and intra-ethnic ties: patterns, processes and payoffs 366Vincent Chua, Shannon Ang and Amritorupa Sen25 Social capital, job search and labor market outcomes 382Gerhard Krug26 Informal networks, social capital, and ethical challenges in internationalbusiness 397Yuliani Suseno and Sven Horak27 Social capital and co-offending 410Chris M. Smith28 Macro-institutional change and social capital: the dynamics of guanxiinfluence in China, 1978–2021 424Yanjie Bian, Lei Zhang, and Xuewang WangIndex 444