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Roma Undergraduatesâ Personal Network in the Process of College Transition. A Social Capital Approach
Roma university studentsâ personal networks become unstable in the process of college transition. We describe the personal networks of these students using the model set up by Brandes et al. (in: Proceedings of the IEEE pacific visualization symposium (Pacific Visâ08), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008) and analyse the identified groups utilizing the social capital approach. We mapped seventy-six studentsâ networks applying contact diary. Origin, host and fellow groups significantly differ in their composition; they provide different (âbondingâ or âbridgingâ) type of resources, and their availability to the Roma students is also different. We found significant differences between the students in their tendency to rely on certain groups in the process of academic adjustment