Nan Lin is a professor in Sociology at Duke University. Since July 2006, he has been Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Sociology in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences of Duke University. His research interests are in social networks and social capital, the life stress process (especially social support as resources), social stratification and mobility, and Chinese societies. Wikipedia
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Lin, Nan, Social Capital and the Labor Market: Transforming Urban China (2007), NY: Cambridge University Press. Nan Lin , editor, Social Capital: Critical Concepts in Social Sciences. 4 volumes. (forthcoming), Routledge. fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/nanlin/