Clark, April K. (2015) Why we need to think again about the decline in social capital. USApp– American Politics and Policy Blog (20 Jul 2015). Website.
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Abstract
In the 1990s, the sociologist Robert Putnam popularized the notion that there had been a large decline in social capital, compared to that which existed prior to the 1970s. But has social capital actually fallen? In new research, which uses four decades worth of national survey data, April K. Clark finds that not all aspects of social and civic life have been in decline; the greatest fall has been in trust. She also writes that this fall in trust is not due to the aging of the more civically minded World War II generation, as many scholars have argued, but due to differences in educational attainment, race, and religious preferences.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2015 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 19:47 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63124 |
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