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| When did things start to go downhill? |
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| What are bridging v. bonding capital, and what are the advantages or disadvantages of both? |
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Bridging is between groups, bonding is within a group.
Bonding can breed intolerance, but also makes major social movements etc. possible.
Bridging is often weaker, but helps people form diverse networks. |
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| Social v. generational change |
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Definition
Social change is 'intracohort,' and effects the whole population at once.
Generational change is intercohort, and happens to people of a certain age, regardless of generation. (For instance, effects of retirement.) |
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| Starting around 1980, the number of _______ organizations grew, while after around 1970 the number of _________ organizations fell. The total number of organizations _____ after 1970ish. |
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Definition
| organizations with paid staff, volunteer based. Grew. |
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CHURCH:
While church attendance has _________, general religiosity appears to have __________. The _____ religious tend to leave the church. Existing churches increasingly tend to focus their attention (inward/outward). |
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| fallen, remained stable. Less. Inward. |
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WORKPLACE:
Is declining union density structural, or attributable to the same things that are effecting the rest of society?
We tend to like our jobs _____ now, and to have jobs that encourage ______ interaction. |
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Definition
About half and half.
less, less. (90-91)
We're also much less likely than previous generations to join professional societies, |
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INFORMAL SOCIAL CONNECTIONS:
Card playing (increased/decreased)
Crime watch groups (increased/decreased)
Social evenings with neighbors (increased/decreased)
Just talking (increased/decreased)
vacationing with family (increased/decreased)
attended a movie (increased/decreased)
Spectator sports ((increased/decreased) |
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Definition
| decreased, increased, decreased, decreased, decreased, decreased, increased. We're worse at schmoozing now. |
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"Joiners are nearly ___ times as generous with their time and money than nonjoiners."
Do patterns of giving in the U.S. (in terms of percentage of GDP, not $) resemble economic cycles or trends in engagement?
Why has volunteering gone up recently? |
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Definition
ten.
Trends in engagement. (124)
B/C the long civic generation is retiring. BUT Also the 1990s young Americans did volunteer more than their immediate predecessors, so maybe things are turning around. |
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TRUST:
the decline in trust is mostly generational or social? |
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| social. Each cohort is about as trusting as it ever was. |
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| Breakdown of the causes of civic disengagement (Putnam's estimate) |
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Definition
Time/money: 10%
suburbanization, commuting, sprawl: 10%
Electronic entertainment: 25%
Generational change: 50%
(of that 50%, perhaps 10-15% is from the intersection of TV and generational change [tv generation]) |
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