Ronald Burt, a pioneer in the field of network analysis and inventor of the “structural hole” concept, published in 2005 a seminal book that finalizes the conversation about the nature of social capital, which he defines, a la Coleman, as the capacity of a social system to reach closure. The book is extremely useful for foundational research on social capital structures in a variety of contexts, especially online social networks.
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