Social capital position generator studies
Authors (year)
LIN & DUMIN (1986)
topic
sample
access to occupations through social ties
339
number of
positions
20
(USA)
BOXMAN & DE GRAAF &
impact of social and human capital on
FLAP (1991)
the income attainment of managers
ANGELUSZ & TARDOS (1991)
cultural stratification in Hungary
365
40
(Holland)
2982 / 995*
20 / 23
(Hungary)
HSUNG & HWANG (1992)
job mobility and social capital
830
20
(Taiwan)
ERICKSON (1996)
social networks and class structure in
the workplace
VÖLKER & FLAP (1999)
social capital and status attainment
under communism
BATJARGAL (2000)
social capital of Russian’s entrepreneur
393
16
(Kanada)
189
33
(f. GDR)
75 / 56
12
(Russia)
ERICKSON (2001)
value of social capital to employers and
employees
LIN & FU & HSUNG (2001)
stratification, mobility and social capital
281
8
(Canada)
2835*
15
(Taiwan)
ZHAO (2002)
social capital and reemployment of laidoff Chinese workers
ESPINOZA (2003)
ERICKSON (2004)
1367*
in Chile
(Chile)
the distribution of gendered social
1557*
MARLOW (2006)
macro constraints on individual social
19
(China)
social capital and occupational mobility
capital
WU (2005)
621
5
15
(Canada)
3050*
capital
(China)
weblogs and social capital on-line
29835
13
30
(internet)
BEHTOUI (2007)
distribution and return of social capital
in Sweden
INAMASU & IKEDA (2008)
gendered social capital and political
participation
2439
(Sweden)
1511
18
(Japan)
LI & SAVAGE & WARDE
social mobility and social capital in
1559*
(2008)
contemporary Britain
(UK)
ŠAFR (2008)
interpersonal network and social
1197*
stratification
15
(Czech Republic)
11
18
XU (2008)
roles of entrepreneurial social capital
and knowledge structure in the process
70
18
(USA)
of new venture innovation
VAN DER GAAG & SNIJDERS
social survey on the networks of the
& FLAP (2008)a
Dutch
BIAN (2008)a
formation of social capital through
networks
LIN & AO (2008)a
MOERBEEK & FLAP (2008)a
SMITH (2008)a
1007*
30
(Holland)
4521
20
(China)
social capital and occupational
2317*
attainment
(USA)
social resources and occupational
2362*
attainment through the life course
(Holland)
inefficacious job referral networks
103
22
30
15
(USA)
MIYATA & IKEDA &
internet, social capital, civic engagement
KOBAYASHI (2008)a
and gender
HSUNG & LIN (2008)a
social capital of personnel managers
1001
15
(Japan)
126
15
(Taiwan)
ENNS & MALINICK &
social capital of resource workers in
MATTHEWS (2008)a
coastal communities
TINDALL & CORMIER (2008)a
consequences of personal network
diversity for political capital
MAGEE (2008)a
civic participation and social capital
1763
12
(Canada)
178
40
(Canada)
709
12
(USA)
LAI (2008)a
marriage, gender and social capital
454
18
(Hong Kong)
CROSS & LIN (2008)a
racial, ethnic and gender differences and
access to social capital
JOHNSON (2008)a
access to social capital and structure of
inequality in Ulaanbaatar
HSUNG & BREIGER (2009)b
social capital of high-tech company
workers
IKEDA & KOBAYASHI (2009)b
heterogeneous personal networks and
political participation
LIN & AO & SONG (2009)b
production and return of social capital
in urban China
CHEN (2009)b
distribution and return of social capital
in Taiwan
TARDOS (2009)b
social capital in communities
557
14
(USA)
312
17
(Mongolia)
369
6
(Taiwan)
1461
23
(Japonia)
3529
21
(Taiwan)
2292
(Taiwan)
736
22
(Hungary)
BRUNIE (2009)
relational, collective, and generalized
social capital
LANG & RÖßL (2009)
the role of social capital in the
development of cooperation
MOORE ET AL. (2009)
social capital’s negative association with
psychological well-being.
JOHNSON (2010)
relationship between public libraries and
social capital
BARTELSKI (2010)
social capital and human capital
179
15
(USA)
196
10
(Austria)
328
16
(Canada)
132
12
(Canada)
109
25
(Poland)
a – included in: LIN & ERICKSON (2008)
a – included in: HSUNG & LIN & BREIGER (2009)
* – representative sample
 ANGELUSZ Róbert, TARDOS Róbert (1991), The strength and weakness of weak ties, [w:] Values,
networks, and cultural reproduction in Hungary, Péter SOMLAI (red.), The Coordinating Council of
Programs, Budapeszt, s. 7-23
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pomiędzy nierównościami społecznymi, kapitałem ludzkim i kapitałem społecznym, unpublished Ph.D.
thesis, Szkoła Nauk Społecznych
 BATJARGAL Bat (2000), Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance in Russia: A Panel Study,
Working Papers Series 352, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan
 BEHTOUI Alireza (2007), The distribution and return of social capital: evidence from Sweden, European
Societies 9(3), s. 383-407
 BIAN Yanjie (2008), The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation
and Empirical Evidence, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H.
ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 81-104
 BOXMAN Ed A. W., DE GRAAF Paul M., FLAP Hendrik D. (2008), The impact of social and human
capital on the income attainment of Dutch managers, Social Networks 13(1), s. 51-73
 BRUNIE Aurélie (2009), Meaningful distinctions within a concept: Relational, collective, and generalized
social capital, Social Science Research 38(2), s. 251-65
 CHEN Chih-Jou Jay (2009), The Distribution and Return of Social Capital in Taiwan, [w:] Contexts of
social capital: social networks in markets, communities, and families, Ray-May HSUNG, Nan LIN, Ronald
L. BREIGER (red.), Routledge, Londyn, s. 193-215
 CROSS Jennifer L. Moren, LIN Nan (2008), Access to Social Capital and Status Attainment in the United
States: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program,
Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 364-79
 ENNS Sandra, MALINICK Todd, MATTHEWS Ralph (2008), It’s Not Only Who You Know, It’s Also
Where They Are: Using the Position Generator to Investigate the Structure of Access to Embedded
Resources, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON
(red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 255-81
 ERICKSON Bonnie H. (1996), Culture, class, and connections, American Journal of Sociology 102 (1), s.
217-51
 ERICKSON Bonnie H. (2001), Good Networks and Good Jobs: The Value of Social Capital to
Employers and Employees, [w:] Social capital: theory and research, Nan LIN, Karen S. COOK, Ronald S.
BURT (red.), Aldine De Gruyter, Nowy Jork, s. 127-59
 ERICKSON Bonnie H. (2004), The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada, [w:] Creation and
returns of Social Capital, Beate VÖLKER, Hendrik D. FLAP (red.), Routledge, Londyn, s. 27-50
 ESPINOZA Vincente (2003), Social Capital and Occupational Mobility in the Southern Cone, mimeo
 HSUNG Ray-May, BREIGER Ronald L. (2009), Position Generators, Affiliations, and the Institutional
Logics of Social Capital: A Study of Taiwan Firms and Individuals, [w:] Contexts of social capital: social
networks in markets, communities, and families, Ray-May HSUNG, Nan LIN, Ronald L. BREIGER (red.),
Routledge, Londyn, s. 3-27
 HSUNG Ray-May, HWANG Yih-Jih (1992), Job mobility in Taiwan: job search methods and contacts
status, mimeo
 HSUNG Ray-May, LIN Yi-Jr (2008), Social Capital of Personnel Managers: Causes and Return of
Position-Generated Networks and Participation in Voluntary Associations, [w:] Social Capital: An
International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press,
Oxford, s. 234-54
 IKEDA Ken'ichi, KOBAYASHI Tetsuro (2009), Making Democracy Work via the Functioning of
Heterogeneous Personal Networks: An Empirical Analysis based on a Japanese Election Study, [w:]
Contexts of social capital: social networks in markets, communities, and families, Ray-May HSUNG, Nan
LIN, Ronald L. BREIGER (red.), Routledge, Londyn, s. 72-91
 INAMASU Kazunori, IKEDA Ken’ichi (2008), The effect of gendered social capital on political
participation: Using the Position Generator method on the JES3 Dataset, mimeo
 JOHNSON Catherine A. (2008), Access to Social Capital and the Structure of Inequality in Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON
(red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 380-93
 JOHNSON Catherine A. (2010), Do public libraries contribute to social capital? A preliminary
investigation into the relationship, Library & Information Science Research 32(2), s. 147-55
 LAI Gina (2008), Marriage, Gender, and Social Capital, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research
Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 342-63
 LANG Richard, RÖßL Dietmar (2009), The Role of Social Capital in the Development of Communitybased Cooperatives, mimeo
 LI Yaojun, SAVAGE Mike, WARDE Alan (2008), Social mobility and social capital in contemporary
Britain, The British Journal of Sociology 59(3), s. 391-411
 LIN Nan, AO Dan (2008), The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study, [w:] Social
Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University
Press, Oxford, s. 107-132
 LIN Nan, AO Dan, SONG Lijun (2009), Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence From Urban
China, [w:] Contexts of social capital: social networks in markets, communities, and families, Ray-May
HSUNG, Nan LIN, Ronald L. BREIGER (red.), Routledge, Londyn, s. 163-92
 LIN Nan, DUMIN Mary (1986), Access to Occupations through Social Ties, Social Networks 8(4), s. 36585
 LIN Nan, FU Yang-chih, HSUNG Ray-May (2001), The Position Generator: Measurement Techniques
for Investigations of Social Capital, [w:] Social capital: theory and research, Nan LIN, Karen S. COOK,
Ronald S. BURT (red.), Aldine De Gruyter, Nowy Jork, s. 57-85
 MAGEE Marc Porter (2008), Civic Participation and Social Capital: A Social Network Analysis in Two
American Counties, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H.
ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 308-27
 MARLOW Cameron A. (2006), Linking without thinking: Weblogs, readership, and online social capital
formation, mimeo
 MIYATA Kakuko, IKEDA Ken’ichi, KOBAYASHI Tetsuro (2008), The Internet, Social Capital, Civic
Engagement, and Gender in Japan, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN,
Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 206-33
 MOERBEEK Hester, FLAP Hendrik D. (2008), Social resources and Their Effect on Occupational
Attainment through the Life Course, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN,
Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 133-56
 MOORE Spencer, DANIEL Mark, GAUVIN Lise, DUBÉ Laurette (2009), Not all social capital is good
capital, Health & Place 15(4), s. 1071-7
 ŠAFR Jiří (2008), How inter-connected are citizens in society, and why does it matter?, Sociologický
webzin 7-8, s. 17-22
 SMITH Sandra Susan (2008), A Question of Access or Mobilization? Understanding Inefficacious Job
Referral Networks among the Black Poor, [w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan
LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, s. 157-181
 TARDOS Róbert (2009), Social Capital in Communities, Development and Integration: The Four-Village
Case Study in Hungary, [w:] Contexts of social capital: social networks in markets, communities, and
families, Ray-May HSUNG, Nan LIN, Ronald L. BREIGER (red.), Routledge, Londyn, s. 216-243
 TINDALL David B., CORMIER Jeffrey J.(2008), Gender, Network Capital, Social Capital, and Political
Capital: The Consequences of Personal Network Diversity for Environmentalists in British Columbia,
[w:] Social Capital: An International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford
University Press, Oxford, s. 282-307
 VAN DER GAAG Martin Pieter Johannes, SNIJDERS Tom A. B., FLAP Hendrik D. (2008), Position
Generator measures and their relationship to other social capital measures, [w:] Social Capital: An
International Research Program, Nan LIN, Bonnie H. ERICKSON (red.), Oxford University Press,
Oxford, s. 27-49
 VÖLKER Beate, FLAP Hendrik D. (1999) Getting ahead in the GDR: social capital and status attainment
under communism, Acta Sociologica 41(1), s. 17-34
 WU Shanhui (2005), Macro Constraints on Individual Social Capital: Socioeconomic Development,
Geographic Mobility, and Accessible Network Resources, mimeo
 XU Yang (2008), How important are entrepreneurial social capital and knowledge structure in new
venture innovation?, [w:] Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2008, Babson College, s. 265-79
 ZHAO Yandong (2002), Measuring the Social Capital of Laid-off Chinese Workers, Current Sociology
50(4), s. 555-71
Compiled by Andrzej S. Bartelski (18 IV 2010)