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Toward a neighborhood resource-based theory of social capital for health: can Bourdieu and sociology help?
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A conceptual model is described that incorporates Pierre Bourdieu's (1986) social capital theory into a framework of neighborhood social processes as health determinants and generates specific, empirically testable hypotheses for future research.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 560 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social reproduction & Individual capital.read more
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Understanding and representing place in health research a relational approach
TL;DR: It is argued that research in place and health should avoid the false dualism of context and composition by recognising that there is a mutually reinforcing and reciprocal relationship between people and place.
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Come take a walk with me: the "go-along" interview as a novel method for studying the implications of place for health and well-being.
TL;DR: This paper aims to serve as a four-part introductory primer on the "go-along" qualitative interview methodology for studying the health issues of neighborhood or local-area contexts by considering the method's strengths and limitations for population health research on neighborhoods and local areas.
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Bonding, Bridging and Linking: How Social Capital Operated in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina
Robert Hawkins,Katherine Maurer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined how social capital operated in the lives of 40 families following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana and found that close ties (bonding) were important for immediate support, but bridging and linking social capital offered pathways to longer term survival and wider neighborhood and community revitalization.
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Community resilience and health: the role of bonding, bridging, and linking aspects of social capital.
TL;DR: No support was found for the hypothesis that the different aspects of social capital help buffer against the detrimental influences of neighbourhood deprivation, and most indicators of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital were significantly associated with neighbourhood deprivation and self-reported health.
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Resilience: A new definition of health for people and communities.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how resilience contributes to health and well-being across the adult life cycle; why resilience processes fail; ethnic and cultural dimensions of resilience; and ways to enhance adult resilience, including reviews of exemplary programs.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Forms of Capital
TL;DR: The notion of capital is a force inscribed in objective or subjective structures, but it is also a lex insita, the principle underlying the immanent regularities of the social world as mentioned in this paper, which is what makes the games of society, not least the economic game, something other than simple simple games of chance offering at every moment the possibility of a miracle.
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Foundations of Social Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior is proposed. But the approach is not suitable for large-scale systems.