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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…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…an unfortunate thing happened during this long overdue reckoning. Out of the growing recognition it had been ignoring or excluding so many people, our national story was disassembled. Scholars focused…
September 17, 2023
Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah
…Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. David Bass is the director of communications for the Institute for Family Studies. Derek Monson is chief growth officer at Sutherland…
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,…