Peter Lawler, Dale Mcconkey

Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The eleven essays in this collection examine the relationship between institutional structures and community integration, offering practical insights to increase social capital and strengthen social institutions.

A variety of social institutions are analyzed. Three chapters cover political legal issues, two cover religion, three address education, and two examine the macrostructures of the military and the economy. An important collection for scholars and other researchers interested in the communitarian movement, sociology, and political science, particularly for those in public administration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313028519
• Artikelnr.: 37808898

Autorenporträt

DALE McCONKEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Berry College, Georgia. He has written several articles exploring the relationship between traditional religion and contemporary society, and he is editor (with Peter Augustine Lawler) of Community and Political Thought Today (Praeger, 1998).

PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER is Professor of Political Science at Berry College. He is author or editor of eight books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. Among his earlier publications are The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and Perpetuation of Human Liberty and The American Experiment (edited with Robert Schaefer).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Driving Alone? Residential Mobility, Political Mobilization,
and the Decline of Social Capital by Patrick Novotny Reconceiving
Community: Pedaling and Peddling Democracy Among Japanese Housewives by
Robin M. LeBlanc Points of Light: Building Social Capital? by Jeffrey L.
Brudney Social Capital Can Be Costly: Voluntary Associations, Advocacy, and
the State by Dennis R. Hoover Religion, Social Capital, and the
Significance of Community by Dale McConkey The Promise Keepers as Social
Capitalists and Architects of Civil Society by Bryan W. Brickner
Communitarianism and Teacher Education by Wade A. Carpenter Academic
Freedom for Religious Academics in Public Universities: The Case of Philip
Bishop by Donald R. Wagner Moral Communities and Personal Freedoms:
Protecting Academic Freedom in an Age of Accountability by Larry C. Ingram
Communitarian Values and the Rise of Generals by James J. Dowd Community,
Polity, and Economy: The Importance of Scale by Michael F. Patrono and J.
Wilson Mixon, Jr