Social Capital, Diversity, and the Welfare State

Fiona M. Kay is an associate professor in theDepartment of Sociology at Queen's University. RichardJohnston is a professor of political science and researchdirector of the National Annenberg Election Survey at the University ofPennsylvania.

• Figures and Tables1 Introduction / Fiona M. Kay and Richard JohnstonPart 1: Theoretical Overview2 Ubiquity and Disciplinary Contrasts of Social Capital / Fiona M. Kay and Richard Johnston3 The Dynamics of Social Capital: Who Wants to Stay In If Nobody IsOut? / Fiona M. Kay and Paul Bernard4 Equality, Trust, and Multiculturalism / AvigailEisenbergPart 2: Studies of Social Capital and Determinants of SocialCapital5 Measuring and Modelling Trust / Stuart N.Soroka, John F. Helliwell, and Richard Johnston6 Gender, Early Experiences with "Social Capital,"andAdult Community Participation / James Curtis andThomas Perks7 Ethnicity and Social Capital in Canada / AmandaAizlewood and Ravi Pendakur8 Social Capital and Political Struggles of Immigrants: Sri LankanTamils and Black Caribbean Peoples in Toronto / SaraAbrahamPart 3: Consequences of Social Capital: Policy andGovernment Programs9 Social Capital and Intergenerational Coresidence: How EthnicCommunities and Families Shape Transitions to Adulthood / Barbara A. Mitchell10 Social capital and Health in Canada: (Compositional) Effects ofTrust, Participation in Networks, and Civic Activity on Self-RatedHealth / Gerry Veenstra11 Ethnicity, Trust, and the Welfare State / StuartN. Soroka, Richard Johnston, and Keith BantingWorks CitedContributorsIndex

This book, written by a team of exciting researchers, helps us understand the importance of trust, social networks, and norms of generalized reciprocity for social inequality, race and ethnic relations, multiculturalism, family relations, and health. Kay and Johnston have helped to organize and advance a key theoretical and empirical challenge of the 21st century in the social sciences. Students and scholars in sociology and political science will find this book a thorough and thought provoking examination of social capital. - Reza Nakhaie, author of Debates on Social Inequality: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Canada