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Nan Lin, Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology

Nan Lin
  Short Description of Research Approach:
Nan Lin
Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology
Office Info
Office: 266 Soc-Psych
Phone: (919) 660-5610
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Fax: (919) 660-5623
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Curriculum Vita

I teach Cybernetworks (Soc. 114), Methods of Social Research (SOC 132), Social Capital (Soc. 228), and Stress and Coping (Soc. 227)and others.
 
Areas of Interest: 
Social networks and social capital,
Stratification/Mobility,
Mental Health,
China
 
My main research interests are social networks and social capital, the life stress process (especially social support as resources), social stratification and mobility, and Chinese societies. 
  Selected Publications/Recent Research:
 
  • Social Capital: Advances in Research (Tentative title), edited by Lin, Nan; Erickson, Bonnie (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Lin, Nan, Social Capital and the Labor Market: Transforming Urban China (2007), NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nan Lin, editor, Social Capital: Critical Concepts in Social Sciences. 4 volumes. (forthcoming), Routledge.
  • Raymay Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ron Breiger, editors, Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets and Organizations (forthcoming), Routledge.
  • “Social Capital,”, in Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, edited by edited by Jens Beckert and Milan Zagiroski (2005), Rutlege Ltd.
 
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