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Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond

In: Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health

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  • Lijun Song
  • Cleothia G. Frazier
  • Philip J. Pettis

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In this chapter the authors provide a thorough grounding in Bourdieu (1986) and Lin (2001). The application of sociology to networks brings some novel outcomes. While network resources generally bring positive effects on health and wellbeing, the social relationships within the network could bring negative effects. The research describes, for example, how competing subgroups can develop for the resource. The authors explain results contrary to the usual intuitive outcome. They also explain the effect of circumstances that limit the “reachability†of one’s desired goals.

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  • Lijun Song & Cleothia G. Frazier & Philip J. Pettis, 2018. "Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond," Chapters, in: Sherman Folland & Eric Nauenberg (ed.), Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health, chapter 16, pages 233-254, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Song, Lijun & Pettis, Philip J., 2020. "Does whom you know in the status hierarchy prevent or trigger health limitation? Institutional embeddedness of social capital and social cost theories in three societies," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 257(C).
    2. Joo, Won-tak, 2023. "Educational gradient in social network changes at disease diagnosis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 317(C).

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