Who do you know, where? Social investments in faraway contacts

It takes some effort to build and maintain a spatially diverse network, so why do people continue to cultivate them? The usual explanations draw on the biographical details of individuals, their age, their work and educational histories, their access to communication and transportation affordances, and so on. Using social capital theory and empirical evidence based on the personal networks of some 410 Singaporean respondents, this study finds a positive correlation between a spatially diverse network and access to high-status network members. This could suggest that social capital, the resources embedded in an individual's social network, constitutes a powerful motivation behind the cultivation of a spatially diverse network.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2017.11.003
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0739885916300142
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/07398859
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Chua, Vincent
  • Axhausen, Kay W
  • 0000-0003-3331-1318
  • Tan, Teresa
• Publication Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 38-45
• Serial:
  • Research in Transportation Economics
  • Volume: 68
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0739-8859
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07398859

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Networks; Social factors
• Candidate Terms: Social networking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Biographical factors; Social capital
• Geographic Terms: Singapore
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01682894
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 10 2018 4:41PM