What's in the "old boys" network? Accessing social capital in gendered and racialized networks

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  2011

• Venue

  Soc. Networks

• Publication date

  2011-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.10.002
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