In academia, social network theory and social network analysis are commonly employed to measure social capital. Social network analysis examines a defined set of actors, such as co-authors of research articles, and interprets the connections, or "edges," between them.

Home Events WEBINAR: Economics of Social Relations. Critical Perspectives on Social Capital Free Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday, February 5, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm CET Editor: Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group (2025) Book presentation by the authors Atilano Pena-López Professor of Economic Policy University of A Coruña Spain Matías Membiela-Pollán […]

Despite social capital theory is a valuable theoretical framework in the field of higher education and multiple well-established methods proposed by seminal researchers, there is limited synthesis of how to assess social capital, perpetuating inconsistent findings and evidence for educational interventions.

Home Events WEBINAR: Social Capital and Digital Transformation in Healthcare Free Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday, February 19, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am AEDT Invited Speaker Dr Mohsin Malik Associate ProfessorSwinburne University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idWGxEOBdk0 Key Theme: The research investigates how social capital contributes to successful digital transformations in Australian healthcare organisations, specifically focusing […]

Disasters, conflicts and displacement have profound impacts on the social fabrics of communities. The networks and relationships between people, diverse organisations and institutions are the foundation of a sense of community, home, and belonging.

This webinar explores scaling within the context of agricultural research for development, with a particular focus on the role of social capital.

This presentation explores the concept of negative social capital, a counterpart to the commonly celebrated benefits of social networks. While social contacts are often crucial for accessing resources, they can also impose obligations on individuals to support others within their networks.

In this talk, we will discuss the creation of an updated 2019 county-level social capital index for the contiguous United States and its spatial analysis.

In the process of looking for work, job seekers who want to leverage their social connections confront a dilemma: on one hand, using connections increases access to good jobs; on the other hand, we generally believe that we should earn a job based on what we can do, rather than who we know.