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Unanticipated Gains - Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Unanticipated Gains - Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Social capital theorists have shown that inequality arises in part
because some people enjoy larger, more supportive or otherwise more
useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than
others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the answer lies less in
people's deliberate "networking" than in the institutional
conditions of the colleges, firms, gyms, and other organizations in
which they happen to participate routinely. The book introduces a
model of social inequality that takes seriously the embeddedness of
networks in formal organizations, proposing that what people gain
from their connections depends on where those connections are
formed and sustained. It studies an unlikely case: the experiences
of mothers whose children were enrolled in New York City childcare
centers. As a result of the routine practices and institutional
conditions of the centers-from the structure of their parents'
associations, to apparently innocuous rules such as pick-up and
drop-off times--many of these mothers dramatically increased their
social capital and measurably improved their wellbeing. Yet how
much they gained depended on how their centers were organized. The
daycare centers also brokered connections to other people and
organizations, affecting not only the size of mothers' networks but
also the resources available through them. Social inequality then
arises not merely out of differences in skills or deliberate
investments - as the conventional social scientific and political
wisdom would have it - but also out of the differences in the
routine organizations in which people belong. In addition to
childcare centers, Small also identifies the social forces at work
in many other organizations, including beauty salons, bath houses,
gyms, and churches.
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