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Unanticipated gains : origins of network inequality in everyday life / Mario Luis Small.

Author/creator Small, Mario Luis
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionx, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science
Subject(s)
Contents Social capital and organizational embeddedness -- Childcare centers and mothers' well-being : whether mothers did better when their children were in daycare -- Opportunities and inducements : why mothers so often made friends in centers -- Weak and strong ties : whether mothers made close friends, acquaintances, or something else -- Trust and obligations : why some mothers' support networks were larger than their friendship networks -- Ties to other organizations : why mothers' nonsocial ties were not always social -- Organizational ties and neighborhood effects : how mothers' nonsocial ties were affected by location -- Extensions and implications.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008041902
ISBN9780195384352 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0195384350 (cloth : alk. paper)