In his 2000 book,Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam used the decline of bowling leagues and the rise of individual bowling as a metaphor for the changing nature of American society. From the days when Alexis de Tocqueville first analyzed the American character in the early nineteenth century,...
Miller sums up the attitude of the authorities towards the witch trials that if one goes against the judgement of the court they are essentially breaking their relationship with God. Like everyone else in Salem, Danforth draws a clear line to separate the world into black and white. The concur...
Six years later, her grandparents brought her to my office so I could see how well she was doing. That was very fulfilling. I know how to retire; I just don't know how to stay retired. It's been good for my mental health to have more on the plate than what I have time to do...
Rothstein also mostly ignores critical trends in racial and income segregation by residence since 1970. The black/white dissimilarity index (in which 0 is perfect integration, and 100 is absolute segregation) declined from 79 in 1970 to 59 in 2010. But as Harvard’s Robert Putnam has noted, ...
organizational paradoxes (Berti & Simpson,2021), where a paradox is defined as “contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time” (Smith & Lewis,2011, p. 382). More specific, the proposed paradox of ethics belongs to the type of paradoxes that Putnam (...