measuring bridging social capital: sam scale

Online Bonding and Bridging Social Capital via Social Networking Sites

This research aimed to explore types of online social capital (bridging and bonding) that the Emiratis perceive in the context of social networking site (SNS) usage. A snow-ball sample of 230 Emiratis from two Emirates, Abu Dhabi and Dubai was used. The results showed that WhatsApp was the most frequent SNS used by the respondents. Also, a significant correlation of the intensity of social netw...

Measuring Social Capital and Its Economic Impact

This paper assesses the quality of various micro level measures of social capital. It begins by examining a simple model of social capital accumulation in which households acquire social capital by devoting resources to forming relationships with other households. Through these relationships households acquire access to social resources which raises utility for any level of consumption. Tests o...

Measuring the Social Capital of Brokerage Roles

Several researchers (Burt, 1995; Marsden, 1982, 1983; Granovetter, 1973; Homans, 1951, 1974) have stressed the importance of actors who occupy strategic positions in social networks to explain aspects of diffusion processes in social structures: If contacts between two parties are only possible through a third party, the latter can be regarded as being in control of resource flows. Such transmi...

Towards an Empirical Characterization of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital

Though a vast amount of empirical work stresses the beneficial effects of social capital, the recent literature has explicitly recognized the importance of distinguishing different types of social capital. Particularly, a distinction has been made between homogeneous (or bonding) and heterogeneous (or bridging) networks under the argument that the latter are more likely to generate positive ext...

The Role of Social Capital: Bridging, Bonding or Both?

Bridging the Gap: Social Capital and Subnational Regional Development