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Gender differences in the creation of different types of social capital : A multilevel study
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Men were shown to be more effective in creating hard social capital, but, unexpectedly, women were not found to be the emotional specialists they often are thought to be.About:
This article is published in Social Networks.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social mobility & Social status.read more
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Mobility Fulfillment Among Low-car Households: Implications for Reducing Auto Dependence in the United States
TL;DR: In this paper, Lovejoy et al. examined the use of cars outside of conventional ownership among members of no-car and low-car households in the United States and developed a method for estimating benchmark mobility levels based on demographic attributes, in order to evaluate overall mobility fulfillment among non-car owners.
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Selected Econometric Models of Social Capital Formation in New Zealand
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a table of contents and a list of tables for each of the following categories: Table of contents vii List of tables xi List of figures xii CHAPTER
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Family capital: Examining social capital, family commitment, and acculturation among college-enrolled Mexican-American men and women in the Southwestern United States
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between acculturation, family role commitment, and various social network characteristics associated with social capital among Mexican-American college-enrolled men (n = 119) and women (n=196).
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.
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The contingent value of social capital.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of an individual's social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work.
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Measuring organizational cultures: A qualitative and quantitative study across twenty cases.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a study on organizational cultures in twenty units from ten different organizations in Denmark and the Netherlands, which came from in-depth interviews of selected informants and a questionnaire survey of a stratified random sample of organizational members.
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Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women
TL;DR: In this article, a framework is developed for conceptualizing the processes that occur between dominants and tokens, and three perceptual phenomena are associated with tokens: visibility, polarization, and assimilation, where tokens' attributes are distorted to fit preexisting generalizations about their social type.