Social Capital An International Research Program

by Lin, Nan; Erickson, Bonnie

• ISBN13: 9780191740619
• ISBN10: 0191740616
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Nan Lin is Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology at Duke University. He has conducted research on social capital, social networks, stratification and mobility, and stress coping in the United States, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He has written or edited seven books and published numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also an Academician at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and holds honorary professorship in many universities in China.

Bonnie Erickson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is also cross-appointed to the Centre for Studies on Aging, the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Centre for Industrial Relations, and is on the Board of Directors of the Centre for Health Promotion. Erickson has written articles on a wide variety of topics published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, American Sociological Review, Social Networks, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and others.