Making Big Communities Small: Using Network Science to Understand the Ecological and Behavioral Requirements for Community Social Capital.
The concept of social capital is becoming increasingly common in community psychology and elsewhere. However, the multiple conceptual and operational definitions of social capital challenge its utility as a theoretical tool. The goals of this paper are to clarify two forms of social capital (bridgin...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 55; no. 3/4; pp. 369 - 381 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2015
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