Network science

Publication date: 
12/2011
Authors: 
David Lazer
Ines Mergel
Jason Greenberg
Maria C. Binz-Scharf

Social capital is currently one of social structure‘s most prominent and debated manifestations. However, we have a limited understanding of how social ties as the basis of social capital form in the first place. From one perspective social capital is viewed as: "investment in social relations with expected returns in the marketplace" (Lin 2001, p. 19).

Keywords: 
Network science
computational social science
political science
organizational behavior
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