¿Qué es y cómo medir capital social?
Una revisión sistemática sobre el uso de este concepto en la ciencia de redes
Resumen
Este artículo busca comprender cómo se ha entendido/definido y medido capital social en la comunidad de redes en cinco revistas académicas seleccionadas: Social Networks, Connnections, Journal of Social Structures (JoSS), Network Science, y Applied Network Science. La intención es no solo problematizar como se ha venido usando esta noción desde una perspectiva de redes sociales; si no que también, mostrar cuales son los vacíos en la literatura y los desafíos a futuro. Metodológicamente se realizó una revisión sistemática siguiendo la aproximación PRISMA (Page et al., 2021) en la recolección, análisis y reporte de los datos; validado con ROBIS (Hannes, 2011; Whiting et al, 2016). En total se analizaron 79 artículos. Los resultados muestran el tipo de investigaciones que se han hecho en esta comunidad usando el concepto de capital social, entregando un panorama tanto de la forma en que se ha usado este concepto, como de los vacíos en la literatura. Destacando la preponderancia de investigaciones cuantitativas, además de la noción/medición de capital social con el generador de posiciones de Nan Lin. Se identifican temas en los que futuras investigaciones podrían avanzar usando esta noción, cómo la diversificación de muestras utilizadas, casos de estudios y aproximación de recolección/análisis de datos.
Palabras clave
capital social, revisión sistemática, ciencia de redes, métodos, teoríaCitas
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