Re: [xmca] Lewin and unification of the social sciences

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Apologies (I had returned the book to the library and it was a long time 
ago).
The term is "long civic generation," and it is proposed in "Bowling 
Alone" by Robert Putnam.
If you do a google search for "long civic generation" you will find what 
you need.

Andy
<http://www.academia.edu/3746209/Social_Solidarity_versus_Social_Capital_>
White, Phillip wrote:
> Andy, you wrote:
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> Greg, people in the social cohesion business record that from the
> mid-1930s till the late 1950s (in the US) there was what they call "the
> long communitarian generation", after which life descended into
> liberalism, with signs of recovery only in the past couple of decades.
>
> snip
>
> in my ignorance of this period of american history i had no recognition of what you're describing here - so i googled "the long communitarian generation" and nothing really came up that i could attach meaning to.  so, who are the "they" that you are referring to?  references to names would be a help for me here.
>
> thanks,
>
> phillip
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