Problems of democracy before civil society: Fathers of the nation in pre- and post-communist Slovakia
In: Slovak foreign policy affairs: review for international politics, security and integration, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 107-123
ISSN: 1335-6259
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In: Slovak foreign policy affairs: review for international politics, security and integration, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 107-123
ISSN: 1335-6259
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In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 657-680
ISSN: 1536-7150
This paper criticizes traditional approaches to stratification, which suggest that education contributes to inequality solely by endowing people with different amounts of human capital (knowledge and skills) or credentials. What these approaches overlook is the social component of education—friends, acquaintances and other connections one accumulates while in school. These connections reduce the uncertainty inherently present in the hiring process by compensating for lack of information with trust. We argue that social capital gained while in school has an independent effect on individual income, and show how this effect varies by education and experience levels. Conceptualizing schooling as an important source of social capital and finding ways to disentangle the effects of human and social capital on individual income are a contribution that economic sociologists can make to the study of education and inequality.