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The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

The detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

Emotion and Adaptation

In current theoretical and policy debates concerning social cohesion, the neighbourhood has re-emerged as an important setting for many of the processes which supposedly shape social identity and life-chances. It is in this context of a renewal of interest in local social relations and particularly the deployment of notions of social capital that this paper offers a critical review of a wide-ranging literature. The paper explores initially and briefly the idea that societies face a new crisis of social cohesion and outlines the key dimensions of societal cohesion. The core of the paper is then devoted to an examination of where the contemporary residential neighbourhood fits into these wider debates, particularly in relation to the interaction between social cohesion and social capital. In this context, some of the key debates around the concept of social capital are outlined. In moving beyond abstraction, the paper also shows how social capital can be broken down into relevant domains for policy action a...

Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Neighbourhood

A logistic regression model of individual neighbourhood dissatisfaction was developed using data from the 1997/98 Survey of English Housing. Housing satisfaction and the general appearance of the neighbourhood were closely associated with neighbourhood dissatisfaction, although perceptions of noise, friendliness, community spirit, schools and crime were also important. Although sociodemographic factors were much less important than residential perceptions in helping to predict dissatisfaction, the type of neighbourhood remained a significant independent predictor of dissatisfaction even when residents' views were taken into account. Some factors were more important in different areas: in particular, residents in less affluent areas were more sensitive to unfriendliness and crime. There were also indications that owner-occupiers were less satisfied in areas where they had a lower tenure share. The paper concludes that neighbourhood policies with a broad spectrum of goals are required, that pay careful atte...

What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods

the functions so that the demarcations presented in Table 1 represent general tendencies rather than watertight distinctions. In particular, in different urban settings, neighbourhoods may be either unable to perform their intended function or, alternatively, may be able to perform additional functions; for example, in a high-quality, high-density inner-city location, the neighbourhood may provide both a place of belonging and a landscape of wider opportunity. The smallest unit of neighbourhood, here referred to as the ‘home area’, is typically de ned as an area of 5–10 minutes walk from one’s home. Here, we would expect the psycho-social purposes of neighbourhood to be strongest. As shown elsewhere (Kearns et al., 2000), the neighbourhood, in terms of the quality of environment and perceptions of co-residents, is an important element in the derivation of psycho-social bene ts from the home. In terms of Brower’s (1996) outline of the ‘good neighbourhood’ , the home area can serve several functions, most notably those of relaxation and re-creation of self; making connections with others; fostering attachment and belonging; and demonstrating or re ecting one’s own values. Key considerations in the contemporary circumstance include the following: whether The neighbourhood is prominent in contemporary urban policy and research, but why should this be so? And can we be clear as to what ‘the neighbourhood’ is in any case? In this introductory essay to the Special Issue of Urban Studies, we shall attempt to shed light on these questions. In answer to his own question “Does neighbourhood still matter in a globalised world?”, Forrest declares that it does, “but its degree of importance depends on who you are and where you are” (Forrest, 2000, p. 30). The complexity of the neighbourhood and its varying relevance to inhabitants are, in a way, the key to this conundrum: governments and policy-makers are neither able to control global capitalism and its effects, nor at the other end of the scale to direct or manage the fortunes of individual neighbourhoods within their jurisdictions. Neighbourhood change is proving unpredictable and resulting in ever-wider gaps in fortune and prosperity between places within single regions and countries. There is no single, generalisable interpretation of the neighbourhood. In a slight adaptation of Suttles’ (1972) schema, we might say that the neighbourhood exists at three different scales, each with its own predominant purpose or function, as shown in Table 1. However, each scale can perform each of

The Significance of Neighbourhood

Much has been written about cities in the information age, most of it either positively visionary or, conversely, apocalyptic in nature. In an echo of concerns raised by early sociologists about the effects of rapid urbanisation a century ago, urban theorists have been pessimistic of late. New pressures of the informational age, the global economy and a new competitively oriented social policy and welfare state are said to be bearing down on cities and neighbourhoods to produce a new crisis of social cohesion. Reich (1991) argues that in the past there was a greater correspondence between the interests of economic élites and the masses at the local level, when loyalty to one’s city and public investment in it corresponded with selfinterest and was expected to bring eventual rewards to all. Now, however, he goes on to ask whether the

Social Cohesion and Multilevel Urban Governance

This paper describes an analysis of perceptions of the local residential environment and self-reported health in four socially contrasting neighbourhoods in Glasgow in the late 1990s. After adjusting for individual characteristics such as age, sex and social class, neighbourhood of residence predicted perceptions of problems and neighbourhood cohesion in the area: and self-assessed health, mental health and recent symptoms were associated with perceived local problems and neighbourhood cohesion. Housing tenure and employment status also predicted perceptions of the neighbourhood. These results support the importance of tackling anti-social problems in worst-off areas and of neighbourhood management across a range of areas.

Ade Kearns

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Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Neighbourhood

What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods

The Significance of Neighbourhood

Social Cohesion and Multilevel Urban Governance

Perceptions of Place and Health in Socially Contrasting Neighbourhoods