We’ve previously posted various posts on Robert Putnam’s research on diversity, immigration and social cohesion. The paper is (“E Pluribus Unum“) and prior posts about the research can be read here.
I recently came upon an interesting paper by D. Benjamin Barros called “Group Size, Heterogeneity, and Prosocial Behavior: Designing Legal Structures to Facilitate Cooperation in a Diverse Society”. He analyzes how group size and group heterogeneity affects the ability of the group to cooperate, self-police or be civicly engaged and suggests how laws and legal structures might encourage this collaboration in the face of greater diversity. Draft of paper available here.
Also, a Human Resources Journal had an interesting article on this diversity research called Diverse and Disengaged? by Scott Flanders (Human Resouce Executive Online, 9/24/07)
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reza // September 25, 2007 at 4:25 pm |
I can’t remember whether I announced this academic survey on this weblog before. But, If I did, I am sorry for re-announcing it.
Barack Obama boldly endorses broader national service plan « Social Capital Blog // December 6, 2007 at 9:54 am |
[...] It looks like a strong plan, although it would be nice to see Obama committing that the corps in which Americans serve will be diverse as this could be a very effective way at starting to break down Americans’ discomfort with those who are unlike them in some way, in the same way that the military has effectively done that. For more on the challenges in the short-term of integrating diversity and social cohesion, see here or here. [...]