MPhil/PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics

本研究重新调整了社会资本在跨国透镜下的既定社会学命题，以调查全球化加剧的劳动力市场不平等的当前动态。这项研究将围绕“跨国社会资本”的概念化（Levy等人，2013），它代表了一种创新的理论和经验工具，特别适合于研究全球精英中难以接近的人群。本研究将首先采用质性社会研究方法，如深度半结构化访谈，考察跨国社会资本对职业绩效的有益影响。特别是，该研究将分析跨国社会关系在多大程度上塑造了管理咨询业社会资本的不平等。其次，该项目将探讨跨国管理精英的高度特权社会群体的社会网络动态。它将研究与咨询和金融等传统精英行业的专业人员形成跨国社会网络有关的解释因素。要做到这一点，我建议采用一种调查方法的方法，连同名称生成器技术，收集自我网络数据。最后，我将使用社会网络分析方法，用数据可视化技术重新创建受访者的联系网络，并用基于回归的模型预测其形成。如果跨国社会资本代表了全球精英的优势，那么这项研究将成为政策干预的关键，原因如下。由于全球化所强调的经济不平等正在成为焦点（见：Piketty，2013），迫切需要了解使一小部分人口能够充分利用高度全球化的劳动力市场的动态。由于社会资本的跨国动态可能使精英阶层获得一些报酬最高的工作，政府有责任进行干预，使这些专业领域更具包容性。

This study readapts the established sociological proposition of social capitalunder a transnational lens to investigate the current dynamics of labour marketinequalities as exacerbated by globalisation. This study would be centredaround the conceptualisation of 'transnational social capital' (Levy et al., 2013),which represents an innovative theoretical and empirical tool uniquely suited tostudy the hardly accessible population of global elites. The study would firstexamine the beneficial effects of transnational social capital on careerperformance using qualitative social research methods such as in-depth semistructuredinterviews. In particular, the study would analyse to what extenttransnational social ties shape inequalities in social capital in the managementconsulting industry.Secondly, the project would explore the social network dynamics of the highlyprivileged social group of transnational managerial elites. It would examine theexplanatory factors related to the formation of transnational networks of socialties for professionals in traditional elite industries such as consultancy andfinance. To do so, I propose to adopt a survey methodology approach, togetherwith a name-generator technique, to collect ego-network data. Finally, I woulduse a social network analysis approach to recreate with data visualisationtechniques the contact networks of respondents and to predict their formationwith regression-based models.If transnational social capital represents an advantage for global elites, thisstudy would be key in terms of policy intervention for the following reason. Aseconomic inequalities stressed by globalisation are coming into focus (see:Piketty, 2013), it is urgent to understand the dynamics that enable a smallpercentage of the population to take full advantage of a highly globalisedlabour market. Since the transnational dynamics of social capital may enableglobal elites to secure some of the most remunerated jobs, it is theresponsibility of governments to intervene and make these professional fieldsmore inclusive.