Help from the parent–teacher association to parenting efficacy: Beyond social status and informal social capital

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 1134-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chau-kiu Cheung ◽  
Ching-man Lam ◽  
Steven Sek-yum Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Parenting Efficacy ◽  
Parent Teacher Association ◽  
Informal Social Capital

Cooperation Drives Competition among Tsimane Women in the Bolivian Amazon

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey L. Rucas
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Inclusive Fitness ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Evolutionary Time ◽  
Ultimate Causation ◽  
Bolivian Amazon

This chapter connects work conducted among the Tsimane of Bolivia with others and highlights the value and scope of social capital as a driver of competition among women. It further examines proximate and ultimate levels of causation to understand what forces instigate women to seek relationships with certain individuals and what benefits might be reaped through costly investments in maintenance of social status and networks. In particular, women invest in social resources such as friendships, kin-groups, and social status because they may increase inclusive fitness through higher quantity or quality of offspring. Finally, the chapter connects the ultimate effects with their underlying proximate levels of causation, showing that women view cooperators, helpers, and advisors as more interpersonally attractive. The conclusion offers a robust connection between proximate and ultimate causation effects and helps explain in richer theoretical detail the extent, progression, and complexity of women’s same-sex relationships over evolutionary time.

Social Status Perception and Individual Social Capital: Evidence from the US

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Bucciol ◽  
Simona Cicognani ◽  
Luca Zarri
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Neighborhood Cohesion ◽  
Individual Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Objectively Measured ◽  
Negative Support

Abstract This paper provides evidence that individual social capital contributes to our understanding of where individuals locate themselves in the social ladder, also when their objective location within society (measured in terms of income, wealth, education and job) is considered. Using large-scale longitudinal data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we assess individual social capital by means of a multidimensional approach and consider (number, intensity and quality of) respondents’ friendships, prosocial behavior, social engagement and neighborhood cohesion. Our findings indicate that individual social capital plays a role in affecting subjective status, as self-perceived status correlates positively with neighborhood cohesion and negatively with negative support from friends, after controlling for objectively measured social status.

Formal and Informal Social Capital in Germany: The Role of Institutions and Ethnic Diversity

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 766-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Levels ◽  
Peer Scheepers ◽  
Tim Huijts ◽  
Gerbert Kraaykamp
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Informal Social Capital

Social capital affects the health of older people more strongly than that of younger people

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 853-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHANNA MUCKENHUBER ◽  
WILLIBALD J. STRONEGGER ◽  
WOLFGANG FREIDL
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Older People ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Quality Of Life Inventory ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Informal Social Capital

ABSTRACTThe study examines whether social capital affects health of older people more strongly than it affects health of younger individuals. Following Pierre Bourdieu's concept, social capital has been analysed on a cognitive dimension, distinguishing between institutional and informal social capital. The analysis is based on the data of the Austrian Health Interview Survey 2006–07 with a representative sample of 15,575 people. Multivariate linear regression models were calculated. Measures of health and social capital were operationalised by indices based on the quality of life inventory of the World Health Organization, the WHOQOL-Brief questionnaire. The analysis has shown institutional social capital to be significantly more important for health of older people (60 years or older) than for younger people. There is a gender difference in the interaction between informal social capital and age in their association with psychological health. In contrast to the sub-sample of women, the psychological health of older men is more strongly affected by a lack of informal social capital than that of younger men. Institutional social capital is of special importance for the health of older people. Therefore health-promotion activities for older people should include activities to strengthen their social capital.

Redesigning a class of its own: social and human capital formation in the German banking elite, 1870–1990

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Berghoff ◽  
Ingo Köhler
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Conservative Approach ◽  
Human Capital Formation ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
German Model

German bankers are renowned for their central position in the German model of ‘coordinated capitalism’ and for their elevated social status. Over the last 130 years, no other part of the entrepreneurial elite in Germany has displayed more power and stability. This article uses the concepts of social and human capital to explain this success and how German banking changed its patterns of recruitment, training and careers in response to general political and social trends. It also applies these concepts to the transformation of German banking from personal to managerial and, after 1970, to global capitalism. A conservative approach prevailed that integrated new demands but did so very cautiously. At the end of the twentieth century these features began to operate against German banking and weaken its international competitiveness, as the stock of specific social capital had created an inward-looking mindset.

scholarly journals Social networks, social capital and social status

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Valentina Sokolovska
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Status

Networks and Neo-Structural Sociology

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Lazega
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Organizational Network ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Control Regulation ◽  
Dynamic Invariants

This chapter introduces a neo-structural theoretical framework in sociology. It shows how social and organizational network analyses help explore the use of personalized relationships for management of cooperation dilemmas. Notions and measurements of relational infrastructures show how members navigate social processes (including solidarity, control regulation, and learning) to transform them into social capital of their collective. Focus on regulation helps develop a neo-structural institutionalism, tracking, for example, institutional entrepreneurs with high, heterogeneous and inconsistent forms of social status, who punch above their weight in normative controversies by exploiting oppositional solidarities and rhetorics of sacrifice. This framework leads to new examination of social inequalities by introducing dynamic and multilevel relational infrastructures, with notions such as organizational stratigraphy, dynamic invariants, multilevel status of vertical linchpins, intermediary-level social niches, and synchronization costs.

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