Social Support
as Social Capital in Personal Communities: "The East York Study"
Research Personnel:
Kenneth Frank, Barry Wellman
Description:
Follow-up study
of "Community Ties and Support Systems" (below). In-depth qualitative
interviews of subsample of original respondents. Multi-level statistical analysis
of both large-scale survey and in-depth interviews.Information on the structure
and dynamics of community ties. Supported by the Univ. of Toronto, the Ministry
of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration,the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the (U.S) Center for the
Study of Metropolitan Problems, the Joint Programme in Transportation of York
Univ. and the Univ. of Toronto, and the Gerontology Program of the Univ. of
Toronto.