TY - JOUR
T1 - Bringing the Best of Two Worlds Together for Social Capital Research in Education: Social Network Analysis and Symbolic Interactionism
AU - LEE, Moo Sung
N1 - Funding Information:
I want to thank the editors and reviewers of Educational Researcher for their helpful comments on this paper. I also appreciate the financial support of the Korea Foundation for this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 AERA.
PY - 2014/12/20
Y1 - 2014/12/20
N2 - This article proposes an analytical consideration for social capital research in education by exploring a pragmatic combination of social network analysis (SNA) and symbolic interactionism (SI) as a research method. The article first delineates the theoretical linkages of social capital theory with SNA and SI. The article then discusses how SNA and SI can be utilized for social capital research in education by illuminating analytically complementary characteristics between SNA and SI. Based on this, the article argues that such a combined approach could pave a route to explore social capital in an analytically enhanced way.
AB - This article proposes an analytical consideration for social capital research in education by exploring a pragmatic combination of social network analysis (SNA) and symbolic interactionism (SI) as a research method. The article first delineates the theoretical linkages of social capital theory with SNA and SI. The article then discusses how SNA and SI can be utilized for social capital research in education by illuminating analytically complementary characteristics between SNA and SI. Based on this, the article argues that such a combined approach could pave a route to explore social capital in an analytically enhanced way.
KW - educational research
KW - longitudinal research
KW - mixed-methods approach
KW - relational sociology
KW - social capital research
KW - social network analysis
KW - symbolic interactionism
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U2 - 10.3102/0013189X14557889
DO - 10.3102/0013189X14557889
M3 - Article
SN - 0013-189X
VL - 43
SP - 454
EP - 464
JO - Educational Researcher
JF - Educational Researcher
IS - 9
ER -