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1 November 2024

Robert D. PutnamKorrents 1 Nov 2024

From one piece Robert Putnam wants us to stop bowling alone (Harvard Gazette interview) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The hopes for turning social-capital research into national solutions were exaggerated

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In retrospect, I think our hopes were exaggerated.

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Big national problems lack grassroots effort, not good ideas

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fundamentally it’s not an absence of good ideas, it’s an absence of grassroots efforts.

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Social scientists should try to change things, not only describe them

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social scientists should not be focused just on description. They should also be focused on, in some sense, taking a more active role, trying to change.

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The decline of social capital was real, and later data confirmed it

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That’s fundamentally because the ensuing years have shown that I was right. I was saved by the data.

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What made Italy's regional governments work was informal connection, not education or wealth

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It’s not the education; it’s not the wealth. It’s the choral societies and these informal connections.

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