POLS 2950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pierre Bourdieu, Robert D. Putnam, Social Capital
29 Mar 2017
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Signi cant changes in class structure, system of mass beliefs held by society. Pre-modern societies were centred on the collective. With the advent of modernization, these close social ties are broken. Urbanization - large proportions of populations moving to urban areas. Social ties emphasizing the collective wellbeing are loosened - process of atomization. Alexis de tocqueville - democracy in america - at the time of his writing, france was much less modernized than the us - us has a multitude of individuals but with no ties. Atomization becomes even more intense in post-industrial societies. Patterns of behaviour that foster cooperation among individuals. Trying to understand extent to which social capital exists in post-industrial societies. Social capital as having 2 essential components: 1) structural element - participation in clubs, church networks, unions, chapters of political parties, neighbourhood associations, social networks - importance of civic participation.
