Mapping the Dimensions of Social Capital

Katarzyna Growiec, Jakub Growiec and Bogumił Kamiński

No 2017-025, KAE Working Papers from Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis

Abstract: We provide a novel survey dataset of a representative sample of the Polish population (n = 1000), allowing for a detailed quantification of Bourdieu's (1986) definition of social capital as the aggregate of resources accessible to individuals through their social networks. Based on this data, we create an empirical 'map' of four distinct dimensions of social capital: network degree (number of social ties), network centrality, bridging social capital (ties with dissimilar others), and bonding social capital (ties with similar others, primarily with kin). Construction of the 'map' is based on mutual correlations among the four social capital dimensions as well as their diverse links with immediate outcomes – individuals' social trust and willingness to cooperate - and ultimate outcomes: individual incomes, life satisfaction and happiness.

Keywords: social capital; social network structure; social trust; willingness to cooperate; new survey dataset (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 J31 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 75 pages
Date: 2017-03
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