Summary Blog Post from Sherman Folland

The Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health, edited by Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg, presents new research from each of the social science disciplines: sociology, epidemiology, political science, economics, and history. The contributing authors are from a wide geographic area – Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. Each of the 18 chapters have been summarised and posted on Elgar.Blog. The list below contains links to each chapter’s blog post.
This book can be purchased in print via e-elgar.com and is also available online via Elgaronline.
INTRODUCTION
The Importance of being social – Sherman Folland
PART I THEORIES ON HOW SOCIAL CAPITAL IMPROVES HEALTH
How does social capital contribute to health? – Sherman Folland
History of social capital and health – M. Kamrul Islam
How social capital arises in areas – Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno
PART II SPECIAL INQUIRIES ON SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HEALTH
Social capital and health across the life cycle – Eric Nauenberg
Religious and social capital and health – Ephraim Shapiro and Chen Sharony
PART III EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL IMPROVE HEALTH?
Social capital in epidemiology – Martin Lindström
Social capital and aging brain health – Nicole D. Anderson
Social capital and types of illness: where is it most effective? – M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe
Social capital and risk-taking behavior – Sherman Folland
PART IV CAUSALITY ISSUES
Social capital and health interventions: enhancing social capital to improve health – Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali and Lise Rochaix
Does health affect social capital? – Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman
Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrants – Martin Ljunge
Workplace social capital and sickness absence – M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco
PART V SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
Network approaches to the study of social capital and health – Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum
Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond – Lijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. Pettis
PART VI SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HEALTH IN WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: a case study for Indonesia – Florence Jusot and Marta Menéndez
Social capital and economic growth – Soumyananda Dinda

Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health edited by Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg is out now.
Read chapter one free on Elgaronline
May 21, 2021
Author Articles, Health, Public and Social Policy, Social Policy Sociology