Introduction / Scott L. McLean, David A. Schultz, Manfred B. Steger -- Tocquevillean traditions and the study of civil society. The strange disappearance of Alexis de Tocqueville in Putnam's "Analysis of social capital" / Amy Fried. Equality, democracy, and community from Tocqueville to Putnam / John Ehrenberg. The phenomenology of democracy : Putnam, pluralism, and voluntary associations / David A. Schultz. Post-liberal civil society and the worlds of neo-Tocquevillean social theory / Michael J. Shapiro -- Historical perspectives on social capital. Liberty, equality, and-- social capital? / Stephen Samuel Smith and Jessica Kulynych. Patriotism, generational change, and the politics of sacrifice / Scott L. McLean. Social capital : the politics of race and gender / R. Claire Snyder. Social capital as political fantasy / Carl Boggs -- Social engagement in practice : local, national, and global contexts. Social capital, civic engagement, and the importance of context / Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh. Building social capital on the street : leadership in communities / Lane Crothers. Social rights or social capital? : the labor movement and the language of capital / Michael Forman -- Robert Putnam, social capital, and a suspect named globalization / Manfred B. Steger. Afterword / Scott L. McLean.
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