Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom

by Peter Lawler, Dale McConkey

Overview

The eleven essays in this collection examine the relationship between institutional structures and community integration, offering practical insights to increase social capital and strengthen social institutions.

A variety of social institutions are analyzed. Three chapters cover political legal issues, two cover religion, three address education, and two examine the macrostructures of the military and the economy. An important collection for scholars and other researchers interested in the communitarian movement, sociology, and political science, particularly for those in public administration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275964764
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/2000
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

DALE McCONKEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Berry College, Georgia. He has written several articles exploring the relationship between traditional religion and contemporary society, and he is editor (with Peter Augustine Lawler) of Community and Political Thought Today (Praeger, 1998).

PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER is Professor of Political Science at Berry College. He is author or editor of eight books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. Among his earlier publications are The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and Perpetuation of Human Liberty and The American Experiment (edited with Robert Schaefer).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Driving Alone? Residential Mobility, Political Mobilization, and the Decline of Social Capital by Patrick Novotny
Reconceiving Community: Pedaling and Peddling Democracy Among Japanese Housewives by Robin M. LeBlanc
Points of Light: Building Social Capital? by Jeffrey L. Brudney
Social Capital Can Be Costly: Voluntary Associations, Advocacy, and the State by Dennis R. Hoover
Religion, Social Capital, and the Significance of Community by Dale McConkey
The Promise Keepers as Social Capitalists and Architects of Civil Society by Bryan W. Brickner
Communitarianism and Teacher Education by Wade A. Carpenter
Academic Freedom for Religious Academics in Public Universities: The Case of Philip Bishop by Donald R. Wagner
Moral Communities and Personal Freedoms: Protecting Academic Freedom in an Age of Accountability by Larry C. Ingram
Communitarian Values and the Rise of Generals by James J. Dowd
Community, Polity, and Economy: The Importance of Scale by Michael F. Patrono and J. Wilson Mixon, Jr