What's in a Relationship? An Examination of Social Capital, Race and Class in Mentoring Relationships.
After 25 years of intense scrutiny, social capital remains an important yet highly debated concept in social science research. This research uses data from youth and mentors in several chapters of Big Brothers/Big Sisters to assess the importance of different mentoring relationship characteristics i...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 1237 - 1270 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2012
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