Nan Lin
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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.
He was one of the very first scholars to undertake serious research on the social networks foundation of social capital.
One recent book: Lin, Nan, Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action (2001), NY: Cambridge University Press .