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Social Capital,Civic Society & Democracy Making Democracies Work

2 Key issues I.What is Putnam’s theory of social capital? II.What is the evidence In Italy? In the US? Robert Putnam and Theda Skocpol European cases and worldwide patterns? III.What are the implications for civic engagement and development in new democracies?

3 Review: core concept What does "social capital" mean? The central premise of social capital is that social networks have value. Social capital refers to the collective value of all "social networks" [who people know] and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other ["norms of reciprocity"].

4 2.Evidence in United States? Putnam’s Bowling Alone Aggregate trends in declining Social trust Civic engagement eg Voting turnout Associational membership eg Unions, PTA Trust in government Why? So what?

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6 Declining social trust, US Note: Q. “Do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people?” % agreeing that ‘Most people can be trusted’ Source: US General Social Survey,

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10 Putnam concludes: “By virtually every conceivable measure, social capital has eroded steadily and sometimes dramatically over the past two generations.” Bowling Alone P.287.

11 Index of US social capital Measures in each state % who Served on committee of local organization Served as officer for club/organ last year Civic & social organizations per 1000 pop Attended club meetings last year Turnout in presidential elections Attended town meeting last year Did volunteer work last year Worked on community project last year Spent ‘a lot of time’ visiting friends Entertained at home last year Agree ‘most people can be trusted’ Agree ‘Most people are honest’

12 Consequences Education & children’s welfare Safe and productive neighborhoods Economic prosperity Greater health and happiness Better governance eg tax evasion rates Negative impacts? Tolerance?

13 Theda Skocpol: Diminished democracy (2003) Prior to 1960: mass membership associations Cross-class membership, regular local meetings and national headquarters (eg fraternal associations) After 1960s- rise of professionally-managed advocacy groups Based on patrons, mass mailing, & specialized expertise for lobbying, research and media projects Causes? Social trends (education, women’s roles, rise of professional middle classes) and Changes in the political opportunity structure Consequences? Loss of bridging groups, greater social inequality, less leadership training, ‘doing-for’ not ‘doing with’, targeted activation, fragmentation of the common good

Critiques of measures and evidence?

15 Critique? 1.Measures dated and limited? 2.New forms of association 1. Social movements eg anti-globalization 2. Internet communication & activism 3.Old organizations exclusionary? 1. Race and gender 4.Nostalgic normative assumptions? 5.Problems of disentangling causality 1. Healthy, happy, safe societies generate stronger social linkages? 6.Misdiagnosis of causes?

Explanation for any erosion?

17 Why decline in US civic engagement? Decline of long ‘civic’ generation – interwar and postwar Time pressure Economic hard times Residential mobility Suburbanization Movement of women into paid workforce Disruption marriage/family Changes in US economy 1960s inc. Vietnam/watergate/cultural revolt Growth of welfare state Civil rights revolution Television & technology

18 Role of TV TV to blame for post-civic generation Why? Time- displacement Heavy TV watching may induce passivity/malaise/mistrust Effects on children

19 Critique: Does TV erode social capital? Norris Matters what you watch as much as how much you watch it Evidence American Citizen Participation Study 1990 More hours of TV watching = less participation (with controls) But more hours of watching TV news and current affairs = more participation Chicken & egg problem of causal arrow

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II:Putnam Ed. Democracies in Flux The evolution of social capital in contemporary society 2002 Oxford University Press Full text chapters available at

23 Democracies in Flux Compares 8 OECD nations US, Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Japan Similar trends (eg TV, work, leisure) in similar societies? Concludes:“Our investigation has found no general and simultaneous decline in social capital throughout the industrial/postindustrial world over the last generation.” p.410

24 Democracies in Flux Conclusions: 1. Expansion in educated middle class, rising individualism, spread of mass entertainment common in many industrialized societies 2. Yet major differences in civil society due to the role of the state and corporatist traditions, and the impact of wars 3. “Social capital is conditioned by political developments as much as the reverse.” p Some common trends – falling participation in elections, parties, unions and churches.. 5. Offset at least in part by general increases in informal, fluid, personal forms of social connection.”loose connections” eg sports and leisure groups 6. Impact on quality of connections, on social inequality, and on collective goals? Next research agenda.

25 Index of Social Capital Data: World Values Study, mid-1990s Measures of associational networks + cultural norms Associational membership Voluntary organizations eg Active, inactive or not a member of a union, party, sports club, environmental organization etc. Three alternative measures: Vol-any, vol-org, vol-act Social trust “Generally speaking would you say that most people can be trusted or you can’t be too careful in dealing with people?” Social capital = vol_act*social trust

26 II.3 Evidence Worldwide

End Next class: Global trends and European cases