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According to Robert D. Putnam, social capital refers to "connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them." [45] In the view of Putnam and his followers, social capital is a key component to building and maintaining democracy. Putnam says that social capital is declining in ...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital". Putnam surveys the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all the forms of in-person ...
Robert David Putnam [a] (born January 9, 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics.He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (ISBN 9780691037387) is a 1993 book written by Robert D. Putnam (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti). ). Published by Princeton University Press, the book's central thesis is that social capital is key to high institutional performance and the maintenance of demo
The report warned that "social capital" in the US was dwindling to a critically low level and something needed to be done quickly to avoid civic catastrophe. The report further outlined a "framework for sustained, broad-based social change to restore America’s civic virtue" which culminated in both the book Better Together ( ISBN 0-7432-3546 ...
According to Robert Putnam, "the first known use of the concept (of social capital) was not by some cloistered theoretician, but by a practical reformer of the Progressive Era—L. J. Hanifan, state supervisor of rural schools in West Virginia. Writing in 1916 to urge the importance of community involvement for successful schools, Hanifan ...
Join or Die is a 2023 American documentary film regarding community connections and club participation, based on the work of political scientist Robert Putnam. [1]The film includes interviews with Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Eddie Glaude Jr., Raj Chetty, and Priya Parker.
Given the long history of the social capital concept, a range of definitions have emerged over the years, especially since the topic gained more prominence in the 1990s. Still, the most cited definitions in 2019 belonged to Pierre Bourdieu, Robert Putnam, Nan Lin, James Coleman, and Janine Nahapiet and Sumantra Ghoshal. [3]