By Alva G. Greenberg, Thomas P. Gullotta, Martin Bloom
This booklet offers a finished review of the way groups can leverage their social capital to enhance total caliber of existence for electorate. moreover, it deals specified information at the layout, implementation, and assessment of social capital projects. It defines severe innovations of social capital, its decline lately, and the potential of rebuilding it via revolutionary social coverage tasks. Chapters current an cutting edge social coverage template, Serve right here, for making improvements to americans’ collective caliber of lifestyles, beginning with teens. Serve right here units out a finished, sustainable provider studying plan geared toward expanding caliber greater schooling for teenagers, decreasing collage debt, and embellishing long term civic participation and group construction. The booklet provide directions for constructing adapted recommendations to make sure better parity of social capital to local, demographic, and different marginalized populations.
Featured subject matters include:
- The civic worth of social capital.
- The economics of social capital in communities.
- Building social capital throughout groups via leveraging own relationships.
- Social capital and returning army veterans.
- Millennials and social capital.
- Teaching the social marketers of tomorrow.
Social Capital and neighborhood overall healthiness: The Serve right here Initiative is a worthwhile source for clinicians and practitioners in addition to researchers and graduate scholars in group psychology, social paintings, schooling, and healthcare policy.
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So who are these Millennials? Racially, Millennials are more diverse than previous generations. Eleven percent have at least one parent who is an immigrant (Pew Research Center, 2007) and twofifths (43 %) of Millennials over age 18, are non-white (Pew Research Center, 2014). Millennials report more tolerance and support of racial, sexual, and religious diversity, despite nearly half (49 %) who describe themselves as “patriotic” and report similar beliefs as older cohorts about life after death, the existence of heaven, hell and miracles (Pew Research Center, 2010).
These findings offer important evidence that social capital matters for individuals and for local economies. Communities in which people are more connected and more frequently interacting, are those which also experienced less unemployment, possibly through job retention, employers’ unwillingness to fire or lay off employees, or because unemployed more quickly reattached to work. As suggested by the NCoC study, in the post-2006 context, in which there were more job seekers than job openings, individuals with access to more connections were more likely to get the scarce jobs (National Conference on Citizenship, 2012).
Further, a recent poll by the Associated Press (2014) indicated a third (29 %) of respondents under age 30 who reported volunteering is a “very important obligation” for citizens (The Associated Press, 2014). Voting: In 2008 and 2012, young voters (under age 30) turned out to vote more than they have for any other presidential election since 1972. Although it may come as a surprise, the proportion of Millennials who voted is about the same proportion of Baby Boomers who voted when they were younger—about 50 % of both cohorts voted in presidential elections when they were younger adults.
