- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
- Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Richard Sennett contends that "living with people who differ -- racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically -- is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city."
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