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Social Capital

Critical Perspectives on Community and "Bowling Alone"
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This collection tackles the theme of isolation and the breakdown of mediating social institutions. It is, in part, a response to Robert Punnam's "Bowling Alone" as well as an attempt to create a broader idea of civil society. The essays contribute to the examination of democratic theory and practice, exploring one of the most popular causes of this decline in public trust - social capital. The essays utilize diverse methodologies - empirical and philosophical - and multiple perspectives to examine critically the social capital discourse and how it is related to political participation, civic engagement and American democracy.
I Tocquevillean Traditions and the Study of Civil Society 1 The Strange Disappearance of Alexis de Tocqueville in Putnam's Analysis of Social Capital 2 Equality, Democracy, and Community from Tocqueville to Putnam 3 The Phenomenology of Democracy: Putnam, Pluralism, and Voluntary Associations 4 Post-Liberal Civil Society and the Worlds of Neo-Tocquevillean Social Theory II Historical Perspectives on Social Capital 5 Liberty, Equality, and ... Social Capital? 6 Patriotism, Generational Change, and the Politics of Sacrifice 7 Social Capital: The Politics of Race and Gender 8 Social Capital as Political Fantasy III Social Engagement in Practice: Local, National, and Global Contexts 9 Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and the Importance of Context 10 Building Social Capital on the Street: Leadership in Communities 11 Social Rights or Social Capital? The Labor Movement and the Language of Capital 12 Robert Putnam, Social Capital, and a Suspect Named Globalization
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