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How Does Tie Strength Affect Access to Social Capital Resources for the Careers of Working and Middle Class African-Americans?:
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This article used qualitative interviews with 50 working and middle class African-Americans to explore how they use social capital resources from their strong and weak ties to obtain education and access to social media.Abstract:
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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
TL;DR: The All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by C. B. Stack as discussed by the authors was one of the most influential books of the last half century about African American families, focusing on the stories and lives of persons who were struggling to manage with limited resources and who had evolved seamless methods of survival and coping strategies.
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Benefits gained from dimensions of social capital: a study of software developers in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: The dimensions of social capital, the number of networks of which an individual is a member and the frequency of interaction between network members are identified as important dimensions that significantly predict knowledge sharing, job openings and job security and career advancement.
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The Stakes of Symbolic Boundaries
TL;DR: Sociological theories of symbolic boundaries (understandings of who belongs to in-groups and out-groups) and social boundaries (material stratification) argue both are related, but empirical analys...
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.
Steven B. Andrews,Ronald S. Burt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, structural holes are defined as network gaps between players which create entrepreneurial opportunities for information access, timing, referrals, and for control, and the structural holes also generate control benefits giving certain players an advantage in negotiating their relationships.
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Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology
TL;DR: Social capital has a definite place in sociological theory as mentioned in this paper, and its role in social control, in family support, and in benefits mediated by extra-familial networks, but excessive extensions of the concept may lead to excessive emphasis on positive consequences of sociability.
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition
TL;DR: In this paper, the Tertius Gaudens Entrepreneurs Secondary Holes Structural Autonomy (SSA) model is used to control the number of holes in a network.
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