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The impact of social capital on well-being in rural communities

Creator:

Harrison, Jane L.

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This study seeks to explore the relationship between social capital and well-being in the rural Western United States. Mixed methods were employed to understand the concepts from multiple angles, using both profile and process indicators. An econometric approach used profile indicators and relied on data from 414 counties in the...

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Dissertation

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………………………………. 58 5. Map of Case Study Communities in Washington State……………… 61 6. Impact of Social
Applying theories of capital to understand parent involvement at school as a component of family-school interaction : the special case of children with special needs

Creator:

Dogaru, Cristian M.

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This study used a nationally representative dataset of 21,260 kindergartners, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001a), and a conceptual framework of theories of cultural and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986) embedded in an ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner, 2005) to identify unobserved socio-cultural classes in...

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Dissertation

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, 2001a), and a conceptual framework of theories of cultural and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986