El estudio del capital social de los hogares por medio de redes personales

Social capital is a concept that although does not have a consensus on its conceptualization or measurement, presented as one of its main features its functional aspect. All approaches highlight the potential it has to provide social actors the ability to access certain resources, profits or capital that otherwise they could not. This feature was the base for the construction of a methodological approach that, taking into consideration the minimalist view of the concept use personal networks as a strategy for collecting information and categorical principal components analysis to characterize the social capital of 96 Mexican households. Result of this approach was the construction of three household's social capital variables that took into consideration the proximity and diversity of their social relations and the degree of openness of their social networks. These variables were employed to analyse how social capital increased households’ conditions of life through the impact it generated in economic and human capital