ISS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Robert Wuthnow, Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone
18 Jul 2019
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Social capital: the information, knowledge of people or things, and connections that help individuals enter preexisting networks or gain power in them, ex of social capital: neighborhood watch. What social trend, related to social capital, did robert putnam focus on in his book. People are less involved in communal activities and organizations. Sociologist robert wuthnow acknowledges there have been changes in americans" sense of connection to one another and to communities, and he argues that _____. those connections haven"t disappeared and that people aren"t necessarily worse off because of these changes. One advantage of network analysis over interpretive sociology is that _____. it can reveal patterns in social structures that might not ever become evident through answers to direct questions. Organizational culture shared beliefs and behaviors within a social group organizational structure. The ways in which power and authority are distributed within an organization. A company changes from an assembly-line approach to product development to a team-based approach.
