Championing community inadvertently strengthens exclusionary bonding over inclusive bridging ties

Evidence

Not all the “civic innovations” of the Progressive Era were beneficent and progressive. Those of us who seek inspiration for contemporary America in that earlier epoch of reform must attend to the risk that emphasizing community exacerbates division and exclusion. Since social capital is inevitably easier to foster within homogeneous communities, emphasis on its creation may inadvertently shift the balance in society away from bridging social capital and toward bonding social capital. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1443

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the addendum on sacrifice where ritual solidarity is achieved by defining in-groups against out-groups. — connects to: Cohousing’s participatory ethos creates barriers to social diversity — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 83; Bonding-only social capital can deepen instead of heal racial division — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1291; Strong community ties inherently enable exclusion and intergroup violence. (+8 more)
• ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s theme that community-strengthening rituals and codes harden lines of exclusion.

Broader Connections

• Strong social ties also enable exclusion and violence toward outsiders #corroborates (0.88) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 528
• Strong community ties inherently enable exclusion and intergroup violence. #corroborates (0.85)
• Communities form identity relationally only through encounter with an other #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2678
• Religiosity correlates with inclusive attitudes despite reinforcing its own boundaries #qualifies (0.72) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 372
• Shared identity underpins commoner formation and collective action. #expands (0.72) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 133
• Societies that prize equal opportunity and mobility breed intergroup competition and animosity #contradicts (0.70) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1479