Showing posts with label social capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social capital. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 December 2019

The library, like the pub, the village hall and the church is a vital community institution - even if you don't use it

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...the contexts in which civil society operates have become much more hostile. In most parts of the world, communities are increasingly d...
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Saturday, 15 December 2018

Trust the people doesn't mean the people are right, it means that people can be trusted

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Lack of trust is a major barrier to making civic life more meaningful and inclusive. Although the majority of Interested Bystanders describ...
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Thursday, 14 September 2017

Restoring community - an imperative for conservatives

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Each day I see more and more that us conservatives, by allowing assorted Marxists to capture sociology, have done the world a disservice. Th...
Friday, 14 July 2017

The pub, the cafe and the diner - the fraying of social capital

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One of the features of society has been the shared social institution. Except this all sounds like some sort of terribly pompous concept in ...
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Friday, 10 February 2017

The Inner City - urbanism's dirty secret

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From Chicago through Dublin, Glasgow and Manchester to Lyons, Barcelona and Vienna, the Inner City is urbanists' dirty secret. We've...
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Saturday, 18 October 2014

Social capital and the problem with immigration - some thoughts

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**** Immigration is a problem. OK, you can call it a challenge, a significant policy issue or some other 'slightly-dodging-the-...
Monday, 31 May 2010

Eurovision and social capital - some thoughts....

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Last Saturday over 8 million Brits spent a fun evening watching the Eurovision Song Contest despite the inevitability of the British entry...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

The Smoking Ban Problem - polls, libraries and predicting future behaviour

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*** Many experts on polling question the effectiveness of the “what if” question: “If politician X was leader of Party Y why would you be mo...
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Monday, 5 April 2010

We really are idiots. And we like it that way.

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What the Big Society could look like? Alasdair Palmer, writing in the Sunday Telegraph wonders about David Cameron’s “Big Society” idea (a...