SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A DETERMINANT OF THE SOCIALISATION OF HUMAN CAPITAL.

The paper addresses the issues relating to social capital and human capital. The primary objective of the paper is the general characteristics of social networks, in which the actors are Lithuanian students. At the same time, an assumption was made about their relationship with the socialisation of human capital. A theoretical part of the paper contains a literature review relating to the discussed issues. It provided the basis for the analysis of the results of the surveys conducted among first-year students of the Faculty of Politics and Management at the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius in October 2014. They determined the strength of social ties, network coverage, as well as network characteristics. The paper reaches a few key conclusions. They relate, in particular, to the occurrence of diverse social ties between the respondents and their closer and more distant environment and a lack of influence of this diversity on offering or receiving assistance. The survey results also showed the scale of diversity of social groups in which Lithuanian students socially meet, and social activity. The human capital of Lithuanian students was determined indirectly through their subjective assessments of personality traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]