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September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…in the past to become the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. In a new edited volume, Doing Right Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, leading scholars…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…Few people would question the idea that regularly eating together promotes family closeness and affection. Unfortunately, research by the eminent scholar of social capital, Robert Putnam, indicates that the share…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…have long been seen as nearly synonymous.”[25] Sociologists and scholars of religion later quantified this observation, examining the degree to which members of different religious traditions participated in community life….
April 18, 2023
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…with social capital and civil society. As far back as the 1970s, AEI organized the “Mediating Structures Project.” Led by scholars including Peter Berger, Douglas Besharov, Irving Kristol, Leslie Lenkowsky,…