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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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Structural Determinants of Men's and Women's Personal Networks
TL;DR: Men's and women's personal networks often differ in composition, with women's more focused on family and men's on nonkin, especially coworkers as mentioned in this paper, which leads to distinct opportunities for and constraints on the formation of close personal ties.
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The gender of social capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the network structure of social capital is discussed and the benefits of structural holes in a network are explained. But they do not consider the relationship between structural holes and the return to social capital.
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The impact of organizational citizenship behavior on evaluations of salesperson performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative impact of organizational citizenship behaviors and objective sales productivity on sales managers' evaluations of the performance of the company's products. But, the research objective was not to examine the impact of OCBs on the performance evaluation of the product.
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Occupational stress in universities: Staff perceptions of the causes, consequences and moderators of stress
TL;DR: The first phase of a longitudinal investigation of occupational stress was conducted by as mentioned in this paper, where a total of 22 focus groups were conducted with a representative sample of 178 academic and general staff from 15 Australian universities.
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The strength of strong ties: social networks and intergroup conflict in organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between social networks and conflict in 20 organizational units was investigated and it was found that low-conflict organizations are characterized by higher numbers of intergroup strong ties, measured as frequent contacts, than are high-conflicts organizations.