The field of social capital still lacks a recognized general theory. Accordingly, various and sometimes inappropriate measurements are used for it. Julia Häuberer contributes to filling in this gap and provides progress towards the creation of a formalized social capital theory based on the founding concepts of social capital of Bourdieu (1983) and Coleman (1988), and current concepts of Putnam (2000), Burt (1992) and Lin (2001). The second part of the monograph focuses on the quality of measurements of the more general concept of social capital derived in the first part. Therefore, the telephone survey "Social Relationships among Czech Citizens" conducted as a test-retest experiment is analyzed.
This book is valuable reading for academics in Sociology and Political Science.

Vorwort
Towards a Methodological Foundation

Autorentext
Julia Häuberer holds a doctoral degree from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her research interests are social capital and empirical social research, social distance, network analysis and social justice.

Inhalt
Social Capital Concepts: The Founding Concepts of Social Capital - Introducing the Civic Perspective on Social Capital - The Network Approach to Social Capital - The Resource Perspective - Formalizing and Visualizing the Current Social Capital Theory; The Quality of Social Capital Measures in the Czech Republic: How to Assess the Quality of Measurement Tools?: The Quality Study - Preconditions of Social Capital - Access to Social Capital I - Access to Social Capital II - The Quality of Measures of Accessed Social Capital