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Nancy Garcia; Leslie Ramos Salazar; Elsa Diego-Medrano – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2023
This case study explores the application of online interviewing methods to a study that explores how first-generation Hispanic students navigate higher education and the influence of social and cultural capital on their educational achievement at a four-year public university. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the method of data collection changed…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interviews, Research Methodology, Hispanic Americans
Yu Chen – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case presents an empirical study that examined how general self-efficacy functions as a predictor of community college student's degree aspiration directly and indirectly via various key factors (i.e., social capital, personal input, transfer readiness). This study is unique because the author (a) utilized general self-efficacy scale and (b)…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Self Efficacy, Academic Aspiration, Social Capital
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Briggs, Timothy J. – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2013
This video presents one academic's experiences using Facebook in service of his professional life in order to contend that Facebook can be valuable to faculty as both a site for professional conversations and a social network that enables users to create and maintain social capital.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Social Networks, Web Sites, Social Capital
Natalie S. Mikhaylov – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case is based on the research project I conducted for my PhD dissertation. The research objectives were to examine the process of cultural knowledge creation and to address the role of social capital in this process. While many studies discuss global social capital and its role in the development of global mindset and expatriate adjustments…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Capital, Cultural Awareness, Epistemology