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Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
Across a variety of indicators, social capital in America is deteriorating. But one trend appears…
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Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
Our church caught fire [i] a few weeks ago. The pastor and a few other…
Article
Family’s Place in America’s Social Fabric
The family is arguably the most basic building block of community life.[i] But even as…
Article
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
Social interactions shape social and economic activity across a range of domains, from migration and…
Article
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
The American Republic is on the brink; a revived civic national story can help us…
Blog Post
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
The concept of social capital has been inconsistently defined and described.[1]That should not be surprising,…
Blog Post
What the Rise in Dog Attacks Signals About the State of America’s Social Capital
If you have ever had the unfortunate experience of being attacked or bitten by a…
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Local News and Social Capital
Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism,…
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Social Capital: What Is It?
Words and phrases, as they say, can do a lot of work. Sometimes, evocative terms…
Blog Post
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
“Social capital” is an esoteric and often loosely defined concept, yet it captures a deep-seated…