| Richard Dagger - 1997 - 273 páginas
...Elster's claim seems borne out, however, by Robert Putnam's analysis of "social capital": that is, "features of social life — networks, norms, and...together more effectively to pursue shared objectives." According to Putnam, the "theory of social capital presumes that, generally speaking, the more we connect... | |
| Joohoan Kim - 1997 - 352 páginas
..."society's core values, especially trust in other people," while Putnam (1995b, p. 1) defines it as "features of social life— networks, norms, and trust—...together more effectively to pursue shared objectives." Thus, by the term "bowling alone," Putnam alludes to the consequences for social capital of a decrease... | |
| Don E. Eberly - 1998 - 286 páginas
...social "connectedness" through membership and participation are the operative words. As Putnam puts it, "By social capital, I mean features of social life...to act together more effectively to pursue shared objectives."1 Civic restorationists also tend to place all human groups that connect and nourish people... | |
| John Robinson, Geoffrey Godbey - 2010 - 428 páginas
...Capital Recent research by Robert Putnam documents the decline of "social capital," which he defines as "features of social life — networks, norms and trust...effectively to pursue shared objectives" (Putnam, 1995a). Documentation of the decline in social capital includes grearly decreased membership in voluntary... | |
| Piotr Sztompka - 1999 - 240 páginas
...which has become immensely popular and widely applied in research (Putnam 1995a). He meant by that, "features of social life - networks, norms, and trust...together more effectively to pursue shared objectives . . . Social capital, in short, refers to social connections and the attendant norms and trust" (Putnam... | |
| Bryan W. Brickner - 1999 - 166 páginas
...Keepers appear to accept the definition of social capital discussed above, that social capital is the "features of social life - networks, norms, and trust...to act together more effectively to pursue shared objectives."20 The Promise Keepers believe that in order to (re)build the networks, norms, and trust... | |
| Brian O'Connell, John William Gardner - 1999 - 180 páginas
...writes ominously of "the strange disappearance of social capital in America" def1ning social capital as "features of social life — networks, norms, and...to act together more effectively to pursue shared objectives."24 These and other concerns support the common view that confidence in our society is low... | |
| Karsten Ronit, Volker Schneider - 2000 - 242 páginas
...capital". A prominent supporter of this concept, Putnam (1995: 664), has defined social capital as "features of social life - networks, norms, and trust...together more effectively to pursue shared objectives. Social capital in short, refers to social connections and the attendant norms and trust. " While there... | |
| Michael Engel - 2000 - 246 páginas
...system at least in part by building up the supply of social capital, defined by Robert D. Putnam as the "features of social life — networks, norms, and...together more effectively to pursue shared objectives" that benefit the society (1995, 664—665). Putnam's clever use of a homely "bowling alone" metaphor... | |
| Tony Emmett, Alexander Butchart - 2000 - 360 páginas
...development (Serageldin & Steer, 1994:31). Putnam (1995:67) defines social capital as the"features of social life - networks, norms, and trust — that...together more effectively to pursue shared objectives". As Michael Cernea (1994:8) of the World Bank has also argued, sustainable development requires the... | |
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