Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics - Original PDF
نویسندگان: Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen
خلاصه: When Tocqueville visited the United States in the 1830s, it was our propensity for civic association that impressed him as the key to making democracy work. "Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition:' he observed, "are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types--religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute.... Nothing, in my view, deserves more attention than the intellectual and moral associations in America." Robert D. Putnam's famous 1995 essay, Bowling Alone, introduced many to the concept of social capital.