• PART I: PERSONAL TIES IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS


• 1.: Social Capital and Organizational Embeddedness


• 2.: Childcare Centers and Mothers' Wellbeing


• PART II: SOCIAL TIES


• 3.: Opportunities and Inducements


• 4.: Weak and Strong Ties


• 5.: Trust and Obligations


• PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL TIES


• 6.: Ties to Other Entities


• 7.: Organizational Ties and Neighborhood Effects


• PART IV: BEYOND CHILDCARE CENTERS


• 8.: Extensions and Implications


• APPENDICES: A MULTIMETHOD CASE STUDY


• Appendix A: The Process


• Appendix B: Quantitative Data


• Appendix C: Qualitative Data

Mario Luis Small is Associate Professor of Sociolgy and the College at the University of Chicago. He is author of Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in Boston Barrio (Chicago 2004) which was awarded the 2004 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the 2005 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Why do some people enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks than others? Exploring the experiences of New York City mothers whose children were enrolled in childcare centers, Mario Luis Small examines why a great deal of these mothers dramatically expanded both the size and usefulness of their personal networks.