| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages) |
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pt. 1. The promise of social renaissance. The coming social renaissance : restoring Americas civic and moral creed -- Toward a human scale : making the world work at the street level -- Individuals and a healthy civic order -- pt. 2. Voluntary associations, public policy, and the marketplace. Voluntary associations and the remoralization of America -- Targeting recovery to low-income families -- A humane economy : the moral dimensions of enterprise -- pt. 3. Moral habits and the public good. Families, fathers, and citizenship -- Cultivating moral habits : four social virtues worth the work -- The reformation of manners -- The Golden Rule : a universal moral ethic for society |
| Summary |
Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep sense that one's success rests neither in money nor in power but in one's civility. In The Soul of Civil Society Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter look beyond such abstractions as the 'voluntary sector' and superficial communitarian solutions to civic anomie to identify the pivotal role played by local voluntary associations in a civil society. Not only important for the services they provide, these 'little platoons, ' as Edmund Burke labeled them, ar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Voluntarism -- United States
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States.
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Non-governmental organizations -- United States
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Social problems -- United States
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Social ethics -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Associations, institutions, etc.
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Moral conditions
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Non-governmental organizations
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Social ethics
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Social conditions
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Social problems
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Voluntarism
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Moral conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383
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United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Streeter, Ryan, 1969-
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| ISBN |
9780739161128 |
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0739161121 |
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1299797296 |
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9781299797291 |
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