In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

Much of the literature on the impact of institutions on economic development has focused on
the tradeoffs between society and community as mutually opposed forms of institutional …

This paper explores the role of various social ties in building trust and providing
opportunities for information acquisition and knowledge exchange (IAKE). Social capital is …

'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity
development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in …

The purpose of the article is to analyze the interaction effect between social network and
extension service in farmers' agricultural technology adoption efficiency (TAE). The empirical …

Dieses Buch geht auf drei Hauptseminare zur Netzwerkanalyse zurück, die ich 1991, 1993
und 1997 an den Universitäten Bochum und Düsseldorf gehalten habe. Im Sommer 1997 ist …

The level (or scale) at which social capital can be conceptualised and measured ranges
potentially from the macro‐level (regional or country level), to the meso‐level …

Autobiographical memories retrieved by bicultural Russian-English bilinguals were
compared across languages. Results suggest that bilinguals' languages may influence …

Assessment of social capital at the neighborhood level is often based on aggregating
individual perceptions of trust and reciprocity. Individual perceptions, meanwhile, are …

The emergence of the two facets of social capital, the individual and the collective, has
contributed to much of the confusion in the field of social capital. The overall objective of this …