Nan Lin

But I got into it, uh, because I needed a job.

Uh, and Nan Lin gave me a key to a computer center and gave me a stack of cards and said, "These are called sociometric data.

Go look it up in sociological abstracts.

Go to the computer room, analyze them.

So there are lots of definitions of social capital in the research.

The one I like the best is from a researcher called Nan Lin, and it is that social capital is defined as resources embedded in one's social network, resources that

can be accessed or mobilised.

Okay,