An exploratory study : access and mobilization of social capital by single parents in Singapore.

• Main Author: Mandalia, Bindhya.
• Other Authors: Lim Khek Gee, Francis
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51742
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This qualitative study uses the accounts of 16 single parents to develop understanding of their perceptions of social capital, their access to it and how they mobilize it. In doing so, it draws on Coleman’s (1988) hypothesis on single parent households facing a deficit in social capital due to their...