Network Measures of Social Capital

As Burt (1998) notes, null capital is fast becoming a core concept in sociology and political science. But it has mostly been used in a theoretical context; only a few researchers have had to confront the issue of measurement. Those that have (e.g., Burt 1992; Gulati 1999) have almost universally chosen or constructed a single measure of social capital. The focus has been substantive rather than methodological, so none have systematically...