Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective (Studies in Interdisciplinary History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521780861 ISBN 13: 9780521780865

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Societies work best where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively for common goals, and thus share a civic culture. The accumulation of reciprocal trust, as demonstrated by voluntary efforts to create common goods, builds social capital and contributes to effective government. This volume advances the study of social capital across chronological and geographical space. It examines voluntary associations, comparatively and cross-culturally, as indicators of citizen readiness for civic engagement. This book is ultimately about the pattern of social and civic interactions in past times, and how these patterns may no longer exist.

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Review

'... these contributions are well researched, high-quality studies of the patterns of social capital in differently times and places ...'. Progress in Human Geography

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521780861
• ISBN 13: 9780521780865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Rotberg Robert I.