Trust is key to understanding the dynamics of social relations, to the extent that it is often
viewed as the glue that holds society together. We review the mounting sociological …

Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that
explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies …

Social capital as both concept and theory has drawn much intellectuals' interest and
research in the past two decades in social sciences (especially in sociology), but it is a most …

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being …

The introduction offers an overview to migration studies, comparing and contrasting different
disciplinary approaches—what they have in common and where they differ. The chapter …

The difference between bonding and bridging social capital relates to the nature of the
relationships or associations in the social group or community. Bonding social capital is …

Psychological resilience has become a popular concept. Owing to that popularity, the word
resilience has taken on myriad and often overlapping meanings. To be a useful framework …

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 …

This study examines how interactions with institutional agents (faculty and academic
counselors) and select student support programs influence success (ie, grade point …

We argue that social media are not only new communication channels in migration
networks, but also that they actively transform the nature of these networks and thereby …