Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric.
powerfully bind us together. Mark Granovetter, a sociologist at Stanford University, named this force “the strength of weak ties,”32 social relationships of people whom we don’t know that can bolster an individual’s prospects and well-being.33 It
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Community in Capitalism
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According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more
It’s long been understood that social cohesion develops through repeated human interaction and joint participation in shared projects, not merely from a principled commitment to abstract values and beliefs.