Patterns of Social Capital
Subtitle: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective (Studies in Interdisciplinary History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521785754
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; World history; Social capital (Sociology); History: World; History; Sociology; Sociology - General; Social networks; Personal Growth - Success; Renaissance; History / Renaissance; Community life; Cross-cultural studies; Social participation
First sentence: In the fifth chapter of Making Democracy Work, Putnam argues that the origins of civic society in modern Italy can be traced back to the age of the communes (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) in its northern and central regions.