Online solidarity cannot replace workplace and community ties.
Evidence
Meanwhile, after a decade of political turmoil, levels of civic membership and associational density that characterized the era of mass politics have barely recovered from the historic nadirs to which they dropped in the 1990s. For fledgling social movements operating in debt-driven service economies, the solidarities of the online world remain an insufficient replacement for those of the local community and workplace. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 16
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Clear Putnam appropriation — civic membership nadirs from the 1990s as the causal backdrop for weak movements.
Related
- Civic association density never recovered from its 1990s nadir (similarity 0.87)
- Digital communities failed to replace lost physical association (similarity 0.83)
- Digital party organization cannot replace vanished civil-society substructures (similarity 0.81)
- Online communities lack the thick involuntary bonds of offline associations (similarity 0.81)