Abstract This special issue introduces the 2017 Social Networks and Social Resources module of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). This module has been newly developed based on specific, up-to-date theoretical and methodological foundations. Within certain limits the designers of this module aimed at allowing comparisons with the previously fielded ISSP modules on Social Networks from 1986 and 2001. The module encompasses measures on social capital and social resources, assessed by both a position generator and questions on social resources coming from network members or formal organizations. They are complemented by other important social network dimensions capturing network structure and opportunities to access and mobilize social relationships. A strength of the new module is to assess multiple dimensions of social networks and social resources, which are crucial either for instrumental or expressive outcomes also introduced in the survey. The special issue includes first an introduction presenting the motivations behind the 2017 new module on Social Networks and Social Resources, the underlying model of the final questionnaire, a description focusing on the core of the social networks and resources measurement with some descriptive results on social capital, network support and sociability, and open the discussion toward some research questions it allows to examine in a comparative perspective.

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ISSP 2017 社交网络和社交资源模块

摘要 本期特刊介绍了国际社会调查计划（ISSP）的2017年社交网络和社会资源模块。该模块是基于特定的、最新的理论和方法基础而新开发的。在一定范围内，该模块的设计者旨在允许与 1986 年和 2001 年之前在社交网络上部署的 ISSP 模块进行比较。该模块包括对社会资本和社会资源的衡量，由职位生成器和来自社会资源的问题进行评估。网络成员或正式组织。它们得到了其他重要的社会网络维度的补充，这些维度捕获了网络结构和访问和动员社会关系的机会。新模块的一个优势是评估社交网络和社会资源的多个维度，这对于调查中也引入的工具性或表达性结果至关重要。本期特刊首先介绍了 2017 年社交网络和社会资源新模块背后的动机、最终问卷的基本模型、侧重于社交网络和资源测量的核心的描述以及对社会资本的一些描述性结果，网络支持和社交能力，并针对一些研究问题展开讨论，它允许从比较的角度进行检查。