Barry Wellman, University of Toronto "This long-needed and richly detailed volume, by one of the original theorists of social capital, organizes and advances on the key intellectual challenges and ...

The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over 100 years. This book offers a solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of ...

Chien-Juh Gu is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University ... Gu presents a novel sociological theory to explore the complex interplay of social structure, identity, and well-being. She ...