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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Social Capital Theory"”.
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Reconceptualizing Social Capital Theory: Life Stories of Kazakhstani Youth from Rural or Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds
Social capital critically shapes the employment opportunities and social mobility of youth. Little is known, however, about how marginalized youth use social capital to pursue education and career aspirations, particularly in countries with developing higher education systems. Drawing on life …
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Sport and the College Volunteer: Teacher Perceptions of a Supplemental Reading Program Using Social Capital Theory
… in low-income urban neighborhoods. Using social capital theory as a framework to analyze the program, sought to evaluate from the teachers’ perspective if the use of sport and college volunteers to lead this effort are successful means of influence. This study found that this in-school …
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Increasing Diversity: Modeling of Social Capital for Navigating the Science and Health Professions Pipeline
Social capital theory states that resources, both actual and prospective, are inherently linked to networks and relationships that can be used as opportunities. Therefore, a basic tenet of social capital theory is that "relationships matter." In the science and health profession pipeline, strong …
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Explaining Churn: Mass Society, Social Capital, & Community Churn
… effects on a community. Mass society theory suggests that because the churn rate experienced by communities can contribute to their uprooting, fragmentation, and isolation, churn is a potent threat to the stability of our modern day communities. Social capital theory, to the contrary, …
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THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FUNCTIONALITIES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS WITH REGARD TO NURSING PRACTICE
… Chief Nursing Officer, the perception of their social capital might affect the implementation of their electronic health record. A survey was developed for this descriptive study to quantify the components of individual hospital's electronic health record, using the theoretical framework of …
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IT-enabled innovation contest platforms: an exploration of the impacts and mechanisms of social capital
… Although conceptual support for the relevance of social capital as an antecedent of innovation seems compelling, there is a distinct lack of research to support this in existing literature. The result is that little is understood by scholars and practitioners in terms of its influence in the …
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Exploring College Knowledge: Diálogo Between College Counselors and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Latinx Public High School Students
… disadvantaged Latinx students. Framed by Social Capital Theory-Institutional Agents and Lat Crit, and employing plática methodology, this study aimed to understand the experiences of both college counselors and Latinx high school students as they enter in diálogo around the college …
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A school council's influence on community involvement in a Saskatchewan community
… were analyzed through Putnam’s concept of social capital theory. During the time of this study, the impact that Sunshine’s SCC had on community involvement in school was evolving. The SCC was new to the school community; Sunshine’s SCC members displayed nascent levels of trust between …
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Exploring Immigrant Farming Programs and Social Capital: A Mixed Method Approach to Program Evaluation
… supplemental income, food security, and social integration. Drawing upon social capital theory, this study offers a novel approach to measure the community and economic development outcomes of immigrant farming programs. In this mixed-method program evaluation, immigrant farming programs …
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Opportunities await: The impact of school-based mentoring in cultivating youth resources
… youth, focusing on how these connections build social networks and open access to valuable resources. Through in-depth interviews with youth participants, this study examines characteristics that mentors, both within and outside the SBM program, cultivate to help mentees navigate academic and …
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Community giving among the !xun san group in Platfontein, Northern Cape, South Africa
The present study deploys the Social Capital theory as a framework to explore the practices of Community Giving among the !Xun San community in Platfontein in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The principal aim of the study was to understand the practices of Community Giving and their …
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Software metrics for social capital in social media
… this research was creating metrics for measuring social connectedness in social media. This thesis made use of social capital theory in order to inform the construction of original metrics. The methodology used in this thesis involved conducting a literature review into the use of social capital …
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Could Alexa Increase Your Social Worth?
… used personal introductions to build social capital, which is the foundation of career networking and is perhaps the most effective way to advance a career (Lin, 2001). With societal changes, such as the pandemic (Venkatesh & Edirappuli, 2020), and the increasing capabilities of …
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Economic and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Capital Predicting Educational Outcomes
Using the perspectives of social capital theory (Coleman, 1988) and life course theory (Elder et al., 2003), this study examined how economic capital and particular dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship predicted educational outcomes. The economic capital variables were family income, …
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Reaching out from within: Poet’s soft lightning delivered with thunder
… the conceptual frameworks of ecological systems theory, social networking theory, social capital theory, identity theory, and transformational leadership theory. Through introspective narrative inquiry and poetic expression, I critically examine my lived experiences from childhood through …
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Segregation on Social Capital and Economic Outcomes
<p>Breaking Down Barriers. Does social capital indirectly affect black/white economic outcomes via entrepreneurial activities? Does the relationship between social capital, entrepreneurship, and black/white economic outcomes change when social capital interacts with segregation? Drawing from …
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Social capital and the budgeting process
… practices in this church could be explained by social capital theory, and that budgeting could be viewed as a social phenomenon. I began to question whether considering budgeting as a social process might also apply to profit-orientated organisations. As part of this thesis, I approached two …
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Social capital and faculty development in higher education
This dissertation examines the role of social networks in faculty development, arguing that formal initiatives neglect informal peer relationships and social capital, which can both enhance engagement in development activities and teaching practices. Grounded in Social Learning Theory and Social …
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Adoptive Status, Social Capital, and Academic Achievement
… the relationships among adoptive status, social capital, and academic achievement. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) had 609 adopted and 11, 940 non-adopted adolescents. I used OLS regression models to help explain why adopted adolescents have …
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A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF STUDENT PERSISTENCE IN A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN FORESTRY PROGRAM
… forestry program. The study was guided by Social Cognitive Theory and Social Capital Theory and explored the malleable psychosocial mechanisms of self-efficacy, sense of belonging, emotion, and well-being proposed by Kahu & Nelson (2018). The qualitative case study utilized focus group …
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