Associational life differs structurally between America and Europe

Evidence

Rotary Clubs and Free Masonry: Rotary is a Free Masonry without the petits bourgeois and without the petit-bourgois mentality. … America has Rotary and the YMCA; Europe has Free Masonry and the Jesuits. … Attempts to introduce the YMCA into Italy; help given by Italian industry to these attempts (financial aid from Agnelli and the violent reactions of the Catholics); Agnelli’s attempts to absorb the Ordine Nuovo group 357 which upheld its own type of “Americanism” in a form acceptable to the workers. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1064

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how Gramsci maps civic/associational intermediaries — Rotary/YMCA versus Masonry/Jesuits — as functional equivalents across societies with different class bases.
• XREF: connects to: European identity formed through internal cohesion paired with contrast to other worlds; Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe; European colonial families sustained identity across continents through regular correspondence networks — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1312 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: European identity formed through internal cohesion paired with contrast to other worlds; Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe; European colonial families sustained identity across continents through regular correspondence networks — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1312 (+2 more)