Social Capital in American Life
Is American society falling apart?Put this provocative question to people you know and you will encounter a disturbing number of affirmative answers. But beyond such emotional foreboding, how would one factually answer the question?In this book, Brian J. Jones poses the issue by first building a theoretically-based model of the guts of any living society-family, work, voluntary association and social networks. This model of social capital is then tested using some four decades of real-world data from the General Social Survey, the gold standard for modern survey research.This process here yields real answers about life in America. People are…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-91180-9
- EAN: 9783319911809
- Produktnummer: 27682180
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'891 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: 132 farbige Abbildungen, 135 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Brian J. Jones is Professor of Sociology at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of Social Capital in America (2011) and co-author of Sociology: Micro, Macro, and Mega Structures (1995) and Social Problems: Issues, Opinions, and Solutions (1988).
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