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The strength of formal weak ties: The vital role of formal institutional networks for America's disconnected youth
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5047-7702
Abstract This article examines social networks of disconnected youth in rural and peri-rural California to provide an improved theoretical understanding of how social networks moderate the association between social capital and youth disconnection. Our analysis finds the formation of formal institutional networks built through young people's weak ties to community organizations are important in facilitating linking capital that can both support disconnected youth in coping with the effects of disconnection while also supporting opportunities for economic subsistence. Our results offer a theoretical point of departure from existing understandings of social capital and social networks of older youth and marginalized older youth by excavating the nature and extent of social networks constructed by disconnected youth and illustrating the role that broader structural realities in rural communities have in shaping the formation of social networks by disconnected youth and these young adults' insertion into these networks.
Highlights Disconnected youth utilize Community Based Youth Serving Organizations to gain important linking capital. The informal, but institutional networks, disconnected youth gain in these organizations support economic mobility. Structural realities in rural areas shape the formation of social networks by disconnected youth and their insertion into certain networks.
The strength of formal weak ties: The vital role of formal institutional networks for America's disconnected youth
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5047-7702
Abstract This article examines social networks of disconnected youth in rural and peri-rural California to provide an improved theoretical understanding of how social networks moderate the association between social capital and youth disconnection. Our analysis finds the formation of formal institutional networks built through young people's weak ties to community organizations are important in facilitating linking capital that can both support disconnected youth in coping with the effects of disconnection while also supporting opportunities for economic subsistence. Our results offer a theoretical point of departure from existing understandings of social capital and social networks of older youth and marginalized older youth by excavating the nature and extent of social networks constructed by disconnected youth and illustrating the role that broader structural realities in rural communities have in shaping the formation of social networks by disconnected youth and these young adults' insertion into these networks.
Highlights Disconnected youth utilize Community Based Youth Serving Organizations to gain important linking capital. The informal, but institutional networks, disconnected youth gain in these organizations support economic mobility. Structural realities in rural areas shape the formation of social networks by disconnected youth and their insertion into certain networks.
The strength of formal weak ties: The vital role of formal institutional networks for America's disconnected youth
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5047-7702
Abstract This article examines social networks of disconnected youth in rural and peri-rural California to provide an improved theoretical understanding of how social networks moderate the association between social capital and youth disconnection. Our analysis finds the formation of formal institutional networks built through young people's weak ties to community organizations are important in facilitating linking capital that can both support disconnected youth in coping with the effects of disconnection while also supporting opportunities for economic subsistence. Our results offer a theoretical point of departure from existing understandings of social capital and social networks of older youth and marginalized older youth by excavating the nature and extent of social networks constructed by disconnected youth and illustrating the role that broader structural realities in rural communities have in shaping the formation of social networks by disconnected youth and these young adults' insertion into these networks.
Highlights Disconnected youth utilize Community Based Youth Serving Organizations to gain important linking capital. The informal, but institutional networks, disconnected youth gain in these organizations support economic mobility. Structural realities in rural areas shape the formation of social networks by disconnected youth and their insertion into certain networks.
The strength of formal weak ties: The vital role of formal institutional networks for America's disconnected youth
Visser, M. Anne (author) / Mullooly, James J. (author) / Melchor, Polet Campos (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 88 ; 205-213
2021-10-28
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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