By J. Jennings
This anthology tackles 3 key matters: how social capital is mentioned in the contexts of racial inequality, how this discussion informs public coverage relating to neighbourhood revitalization and monetary improvement, and the way powerful a method usage of social capital is for making improvements to internal urban residing stipulations.
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What we do know is that the story he told was incredibly compelling. It just wasn’t as credible a story as he made it out to be. We know this because we can go back to the numbers he used and see where his train left the track. Why Putnam didn’t do more with his numbers actually matters a lot. That’s the most important lesson to be learned from recreating as many of the graphs and charts that Putnam had in his book from data he has made available on a Web page. Assuming that no big mistakes were made when redoing his tables, what one finds is pretty interesting.
Coleman who views social capital as a corrective to “the broadly perpetrated fiction in modern society” associated with the political philosophy of natural rights and classical and neoclassical economic theory that society “consists of a set of independent individuals . . ”16 The concept of social capital corrects this fiction by calling attention to certain aspects of social structure. The concept’s value “lies primarily in the fact that it identifies certain aspects of social structure by their function .
Sometimes we are the kind of persons Americans call “minorities” or we don’t have much formal education or our job isn’t the greatest. Those among us who are not such great joiners and visitors, however, are just as likely to come from the ranks of more privileged or accomplished Americans. ” The concern is about what will happen to our communities and way of life if fewer of “us” and more of “them” take on these vital civic posts. As Putnam himself recognizes, however, this is not the first time in our history that well-placed citizens have fretted about the state of our civic lives and the rise of less appealing newcomers to positions of responsibility.
