Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency/

1. Social Capital in a Comparative Perspective Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu and Chih-jou Jay Chen

Part I: Measuring Social Capital

2. Contact Status and Finding a Job: Validation and Extension Nan Lin, Hang Young Lee and Dan Ao
3. Homophily and Heterophily in the Position-Generated Networks in the U.S. and China Dan Ao
4. Status-Based Differential Memory and Measurement of Social Capital: Recall Errors and Bias Estimates Kuo-Hsien Su and Nan Lin

Part II: Endogeneity of Social Capital: Structural and Network Features
5. Similarities and Differences in Relation-Specific Social Resources Among Three Societies: Taiwan, China and the United States Ray-May Hsung and Ronald L. Breiger
6. How Social Capital Changes During One’s Current Job: Work Conditions and Contact Patterns Yang-chih Fu, Ray May Hsung and Szu-Ying Lee
7. Occupational Sex Composition, Cultural Contexts, and Social Capital Formation: Cases of the United States and Taiwan Wei-hsin Yu and Chi-Tsun Chiu
8. The Internet Implications for Social Capital: Stock, Changes, and Tie Strength Wenhong Chen

Part III: Accessing and Mobilizing Social Capital: Institutional, Networking and Organizational Factors

9. Job Search Chains and Embedded Resources: A Comparative Analysis Among Taiwan, China and the US Chih-jou Jay Chen
10. Network and Contact Diversities in Race and Gender and Status Attainment in the United States Joonmo Son
11. The Road to Democracy: A Three-Society Comparison of Civic Network Structures Yanlong Zhang and Hang Young Lee Part IV: Social Capital and Well-Being
12. Social Capital in the Workplace and Health Disruptions: A Cross-National Investigation Steve McDonald, Feinian Chen and Martha Crowley
13. Bright and Dark Sides of Who You Know in the Evaluation of Well-Being: Social Capital and Life Satisfaction Across Three Societies Lijun Song Appendix I: Social Capital USA 2004 Telephone Interview Questionnaire. Appendix II: Sample Characters for U.S., Taiwan, and China 2004-2005 Social Capital Surveys.