Social Capital, please help!?

Hi, can you please tell me of any good books or articles on social capital, and its many network mechanisms, such as structural holes and structural embeddedness etc...





I need to write a conceptual article on social capital, as part of my social networks module at uni, and I can't find any books on social capital.





Thanks, any help is appreciated.

Social Capital, please help!?
Harvard has a blog that mentions several recent books and papers.


Anything concerning "social capital" has to be recent, it seems to be a concept born of the "cyber-era", though not necessarily a creature of cyberspace alone.





The address of their blog is:


http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/20...





It's called the "Complexity and Social Networks Blog". I never thought such a thing would exist, but if you are interested in eventually completing a PhD, this looks a wide open field where you won't likely be forced to reguritate something proposed by your advisor. There really aren't a lot of published papers.





Better yet, corporations are paying for this type of research, and if properly done, it can save them money over existing efforts -


at least according to what I could quickly glean from the blog above.





There is also the INSNA (International Network of Social Network Analysts) , and some of their work might help you understand the mechanisms of behavior in Yahoo! Answers:





"The key question about reciprocity explored in the talk was why A helps B given that B may not be in a position to help A in the future. Prof. Baker has developed a particular research paradigm (the “Reciprocity Ring”_, in which a group is told to ask for and give help (on anything), where the empirical puzzle is what drives some people to be more helpful than others. In any case, if you were at the talk and reactions to his presentation, or if you had comments about the drivers of “generalized reciprocity,” so defined, please comment here...."


http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/20...
Reply:wow you must be clever, Have you tried to google it. sorry cant be more help