Changes in Social Capital and School-to-Work Transitions
通过对比两代男性离校者的访谈数据，发现当前离校者可用的社会网络价值低于其父辈，这增加了从学校到工作转变中的风险与不确定性。
This article draws on data generated in semi-structured interviews to describe changes in social capital in the form of social networks across two generations of male school leavers. The article achieves this by comparing and contrasting the school-to-work transitions of eleven poorly qualified males, who left school in the late 1990s, to the transitions made by their fathers in the years between 1955 and 1980. The data show that the value of the social networks available to today's school leavers has declined in comparison to the value of the networks that were available to their fathers. It is argued that the decline in the value of social networks has contributed to risk and uncertainty in school-to-work transitions.