Bringing the Best of Two Worlds Together for Social Capital Research in Education: Social Network Analysis and Symbolic Interactionism

Moosung Lee

doi:10.3102/0013189X14557889

Bringing the Best of Two Worlds Together for Social Capital Research in Education: Social Network Analysis and Symbolic Interactionism

Moosung Lee

Department of Education

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	454-464
Number of pages	11
Journal	Educational Researcher
Volume	43
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X14557889
Publication status	Published - 2014 Dec 20

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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.

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© 2014 AERA.

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