The structure of social capital in Austria: Subjective and objective determinants

Autor(en)

Bernd Liedl, Nina-Sophie Fritsch, Laura Wiesböck, Roland Verwiebe

Abstrakt

This paper seeks to address the relationship between social capital and perceived social origin in contemporary Austria. While the concept of social capital has been widely adopted in social sciences, so far research on the (pre)structured shape of social capital by social origin is scarce. Our aim is to close this gap. Therefore, we use the network-as-capital approach by following the “position generator” and apply latent class analysis (LCA) and path modelling on the basis of the 2018 Austrian Social Survey. The dataset comprises a representative sample of the Austrian residential population aged 18 and older. Our findings show that the diversity of social capital, and access to networks of people in more highly ranked positions is strongly influenced by one’s social background. The higher respondents assess their social origin, the greater the probability of being in this type of network. Furthermore, education and occupation have effects on membership in a class-specific network.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Soziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Potsdam, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)

Journal

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie

Band

45

Seiten

115-138

Anzahl der Seiten

24

ISSN

1011-0070

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-020-00403-2

Publikationsdatum

06-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504003 Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung, 504007 Empirische Sozialforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1ae18b59-d885-47c5-930c-1e83f23aa8ba