Unanticipated gains : origins of network inequality in everyday life /
"Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the practice and structure of the churches,...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Social capital and organizational embeddedness
- Childcare centers and mothers' well-being : whether mothers did better when their children were in daycare
- Opportunities and inducements : why mothers so often made friends in centers
- Weak and strong ties : whether mothers made close friends, acquaintances, or something else
- Trust and obligations : why some mothers' support networks were larger than their friendship networks
- Ties to other organizations : why mothers' most useful ties were not always social
- Organizational ties and neighborhood effects : how mothers' nonsocial ties were affected by location
- Extensions and implications.