The Resource Generator: social capital quantification with concrete
The Resource Generator: social capital quantification with concrete
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socnet.2004.10.001
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
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影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Snijders, TAB
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作者：
Van Der Gaag, M;Snijders, TAB
在对个人社会资本的研究中，几乎没有标准化的测量工具，并且更多地强调测量社会关系而不是社会资源。在本文中，我们提出了两个创新。首先，一种新的测量方法：资源生成器;一种包含具体措辞项目的工具，涵盖人口中的“一般”社会资本，它结合了早期技术的优点。建设，使用，并在1999-2000年的荷兰人口的代表性样本（N = 1004）的第一个实证研究结果进行了讨论。其次，我们建议调查社会资本的潜在特质分析，我们确定了四个独立的访问部分的社会资本：声望和教育相关的社会资本，政治和金融技能的社会资本，个人技能的社会资本，和个人支持的社会资本。这强调了社会资本的衡量需要多种措施，不能减少到一个间接'拥有'的资源的总措施。构建一个基于理论的资源生成器是一个挑战，不同的使用环境，但也检索有意义的信息时，调查的生产力和目标的特异性的社会资本。(C)2004 Elsevier B. V.保留所有权利。
In research on the social capital of individuals, there has been little standardisation of measurement instruments, and more emphasis on measuring social relationships than on social resources. In this paper, we propose two innovations. First, a new measurement method: the Resource Generator; an instrument with concretely worded items covering 'general' social capital in a population, which combines advantages of earlier techniques. Construction, use, and first empirical findings are discussed for a representative sample (N = 1004) of the Dutch population in 1999-2000. Second, we propose to investigate social capital by latent trait analysis, and we identify four separately accessed portions of social capital: prestige and education related social capital, political and financial skills social capital, personal skills social capital, and personal support social capital. This underlines that social capital measurement needs multiple measures, and cannot be reduced to one total measure of indirectly 'owned' resources. Constructing a theory-based Resource Generator is a challenge for different contexts of use, but also retrieves meaningful information when investigating the productivity and goal specificity of social capital. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.