Lecture 6

Question 1

social capital theory

Answer 1

social capital allows access to resources (someone, a thing, software), influences structure of network (size, quality) and nature of relationships (quality, resources embedded in network)

Question 2

Social capital (Adler)

Answer 2

conceptual framework identifying benefits, risks and contingencies of social capital

Question 3

3 dimensions of social structure (Adler)

Answer 3

• market relations (goods and services exchanged for money)
• hierarchy relations (obedience to authority for material and spiritual security)
• social relations (favors, gifts)

Question 4

van Wijk research

Answer 4

• restructuring of organizational field through social movement
• sustainable tourism movement

Question 5

results van Wijk

Answer 5

relatively unorganized movement with limted power, resources and support was able to cause change in a field even when elites in the field were attempting to defuse the movement through a process of co-optation