Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital

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Author: Barbara Arneil

ISBN-10: 0521857198

ISBN-13: 9780521857192

Category: United States History - 20th Century - 1945 to 2000

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Robert Putnam's social capital thesis re-examined from the perspective of women and cultural minorities.

List of abbreviations     viiiAcknowledgements     xiSocial capital, justice and diversity: an introduction     1The Progressive Era: past paradise?     15The present malaise in civic participation: empirical and normative dimensions     41The causes of 'decline' in social capital theory     92Civic trust and shared norms     124Beyond Bowling Alone: social capital in twenty-first-century America     163Justice in diverse communities: lessons for the future     200References     241Index     257