Diverse Communities The Problem with Social Capital

Name: Diverse Communities The Problem with Social Capital
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ISBN: 9780521673907

ISBN-10: 0521673909

ISBN-13: 9780521673907

Edition: 2006

Authors: Barbara Arneil

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Diverse Communities is a critique of Robert Putnam's social capital thesis, re-examined from the perspective of women and cultural minorities in America over the last century. Barbara Arneil argues that the idyllic communities of the past were less positive than Putnam envisions and that the current 'collapse' in participation is better understood as change rather than decline. Arneil suggests that the changes in American civil society in the last half century are not so much the result of generational change or television as the unleashing of powerful economic, social and cultural forces that, despite leading to division and distrust within American society, also contributed to greater…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of abbreviations


Acknowledgements



Social capital, justice and diversity: an introduction



The Progressive Era: past paradise?



The present malaise in civic participation: empirical and normative dimensions



The causes of 'decline' in social capital theory



Civic trust and shared norms



Beyond Bowling Alone: social capital in twenty-first-century America



Justice in diverse communities: lessons for the future


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