Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940
All studies of American civic life identify the years between 1890 and 1940 as the high tide of civic engagement: the period in which voluntary associations and other formal organizations, for profit and nonprofit, proliferated rapidly, in which citizens participated in unprecedented numbers (Skocpo...
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| description | All studies of American civic life identify the years between 1890 and 1940 as the high tide of civic engagement: the period in which voluntary associations and other formal organizations, for profit and nonprofit, proliferated rapidly, in which citizens participated in unprecedented numbers (Skocpol, 1999; Putnam, 2000; Putnam & Gamm, 1999; Hall, 1999). A variety of forces and collective experiences have been offered to explain this phenomenon: the unifying and paradoxically civilized impact of war; efforts to overcome the atomizing effects of immigration, urbanization, and industrialization; the enactment of laws facilitating corporate and associational activity; efforts by religious and economic conservative activists to privatize religion and culture. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/559312019-04-12T23:41:08Z Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 Dobkin Hall, Peter hks kennedy school leadership cpl civic student life ethics ivy league All studies of American civic life identify the years between 1890 and 1940 as the high tide of civic engagement: the period in which voluntary associations and other formal organizations, for profit and nonprofit, proliferated rapidly, in which citizens participated in unprecedented numbers (Skocpol, 1999; Putnam, 2000; Putnam & Gamm, 1999; Hall, 1999). A variety of forces and collective experiences have been offered to explain this phenomenon: the unifying and paradoxically civilized impact of war; efforts to overcome the atomizing effects of immigration, urbanization, and industrialization; the enactment of laws facilitating corporate and associational activity; efforts by religious and economic conservative activists to privatize religion and culture. 2010-06-17T15:46:49Z 2010-06-17T15:46:49Z 2004-01-09 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55931 en_US Center for Public Leadership Working Paper Series;04-09 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf Center for Public Leadership |
| spellingShingle | hks kennedy school leadership cpl civic student life ethics ivy league Dobkin Hall, Peter Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 |
| title | Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 |
| title_full | Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 |
| title_fullStr | Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 |
| title_short | Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940 |
| title_sort | learning to be civic higher education and student life 1890 1940 |
| topic | hks kennedy school leadership cpl civic student life ethics ivy league |
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