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thanks, Andy - Putnam i know and have, and can reread him. phillip ________________________________________ From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Blunden [ablunden@mira.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:11 AM To: White, Phillip Cc: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity Subject: Re: [xmca] Lewin and unification of the social sciences 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: > > snip > > 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 > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Andy Blunden* Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ Book: http://www.brill.nl/concepts http://marxists.academia.edu/AndyBlunden