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Does Who You Know Protect or Hurt? Social Capital, Social Cost, Tie Strength and Inequalities in Three Societies

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Lecture Hybrid Event

Wed, Apr 5, 2023

4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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144 Louis A. Simpson International Building

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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How do social network properties interplay to generate inequalities of different natures across societies? This lecture proposes an external-internal inequality outcome continuum and develop a theoretical framework on the interplay between two fundamental structural egocentric network properties: accessed status (network members’ socioeconomic status) and tie strength (the degree of closeness between individuals and network members). Using three-society nationally representative data (the United States, urban China, and Taiwan), the researchers measure multiple indicators of accessed status, tie strength, and external and internal outcomes.

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144 Louis A. Simpson International Building

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Speakers

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Lijun Song

Associate Professor of Sociology, Medicine, Health, and Society, and Asian Studies, and directs the SNAIL (Social Networks and Inequalities Lab) at Vanderbilt University.

Vanderbilt University

Lijun Song is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Medicine, Health, and Society, and Asian Studies, and directs the SNAIL (Social Networks and Inequalities Lab) at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Duke University (2009). Her primary research interests include social networks, medical sociology and mental health, social stratification (gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class), social psychology, Chinese societies, and comparative historical sociology. Her work has appeared in such journals as Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Psychology Quarterly, Society and Mental Health, Social Science and Medicine, Social Networks, and Chinese Sociological Review. Her scholarship has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. She has received two publication awards from the American Sociological Association: one from the Section on Asia/Asian America and the other from the Section on Sociology of Mental Health.


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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Center on Contemporary China (OWNER)