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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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A meta-analysis of disclosure of one's HIV-positive status, stigma and social support
TL;DR: An analysis of the relationships among perceived stigma, reported disclosure and perceived social support for those living with HIV showed a positive, heterogeneous correlation between disclosure and social support and a negative, homogenous correlation between stigma and disclosure.
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Web-Based Network Sampling: Efficiency and Efficacy of Respondent-Driven Sampling for Online Research
TL;DR: Web-based RDS (WebRDS) is found to be highly efficient and effective and methods for testing the validity of assumptions required by RDS estimation are presented.
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What the numbers tell: The impact of human, family and financial capital on women and men's entry into entrepreneurship in Turkey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relative importance of three types of capital (human, family and financial) in pursuing entrepreneurship and found that regardless of sex, all three forms of capital influence the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur in varying degrees.
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Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010:
TL;DR: This paper analyzed career survival models and interaction effects between gender and different measures of social capital and information openness and found that female actors have a higher risk of career failure than do their male colleagues when affiliated in cohesive networks, but women have better survival chances when embedded in open, diverse structures.
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Independence Through Social Networks: Bridging Potential Among Older Women and Men
TL;DR: Gender differences in the extent to which older adults maintain a related, but distinct, form of social capital-bridging potential, which involves serving as a tie between two unconnected parties and thus boosts independence and control of everyday social life are documents.
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Men, masculinity, and the contexts of help seeking.
TL;DR: A contextual framework is developed by exploring how the socialization and social construction of masculinities transact with social psychological processes common to a variety of potential help-seeking contexts and suggests innovative ways to facilitate adaptive help seeking.
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A Social Capital Theory of Career Success
TL;DR: In this paper, a model integrating competing theories of social capital with research on career success was developed and tested in a sample of 448 employees with various occupations and organizations, where social capital was conceptualized in terms of network structure and social resources.
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Network data and measurement
TL;DR: Continued research on data quality is needed; beyond improved samples and further investigation of the informant accuracy/reliability issue, this should cover common indices of network structure, address the consequences of sampling portions of a network, and examine the robustness of indicators ofnetwork structure and position to both random and nonrandom errors of measurement.
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The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era
TL;DR: The Boundaryless Career as a New Employment Principle as mentioned in this paper explores the nature of boundaryless careers and explores the competitive advantages of knowledge based on boundaryless careers, which is a new employment principle.
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Social Networks and the Performance of Individuals and Groups
TL;DR: In this article, a field study involving 190 employees in 38 work groups representing five diverse organizations provided evidence that social networks, as defined in terms of both positive and negative relations, are related to both individual and group performance.