This paper reviews the origins and definitions of social capital in the writings of Bourdieu,
Loury, and Coleman, among other authors. It distinguishes four sources of social capital and …

Although rational choice theory has made considerable advances in other social sciences,
its progress in sociology has been limited. Some sociologists' reservations about rational …

It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in
education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do …

The mainstream of American life has demonstrated since the colonial period a remarkable
capacity to draw into its swift currents the descendants of successive waves of immigrants …

Assimilation theory has been subject to intensive critique for decades. Yet no other
framework has provided the social science community with as deep a corpus of cumulative …

The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more
evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of …

A quest to explain institutional change that gave rise to a new economic order is complex
and challenging. This book reports the results of a six-year (2005–2011) study that aims to …

We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by
family composition and human capital/class resources. Because of collective interests and …

In the past thirty years, many concepts and theories on ethnic entrepreneurship have been
developed, challenged, and revised to provide a fuller account of the phenomenon. This …

The theoretical formulations on social capital of Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam have
greatly contributed to the currency of the concept. Yet, while the concept enjoys an …