Social Capital - 9780814798140

Social CapitalCritical Perspectives on Community and \""Bowling Alone\""\nAuthor(s): Scott L. McLean, David A. Schultz, Manfred B. Steger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814798140, 978-0814798140\nSynopsis\n\""Social Capital is an important crtique that should stimulate further analysis and dicussion of what constitutes community.\""\n? New Political Science\n\""The reader emerges with a good sense of the gaps in Putnam's work- or more appropriately in the context of this book, the way in which the 'feelgood' factor of Putnam's work deserves critical analysis.\""\n ?Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations\nThis collection tackles the theme of isolation and the breakdown of mediating social institutions. It is, in part, a response to Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone as well as an attempt to create a broader idea of civil society. These original essays contribute to the exa.