On Robert D. Putnam’s Prescriptions for Rebuilding Social Capital

My main goal with the essay is to discuss Putnam’s prescriptions for building social capital going forward. The book is somewhat outdated by this point, and it has become clear not only that we haven’t succeeded in raising social capital, but we are even lower in it than before. But even starting from now, I think many of his ideas on how to ameliorate our situation would be difficult if not impossible to implement because of something Putnam barely mentions: ideological changes.