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Religion und Religiosit?t in der SchweizAssessing citizenship is a complicated matter. As the literature I have reviewed here suggests, citizenship involves a complex interplay of virtues, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. Such complexity and depth invites a qualitative approach to studies in this area.

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Assessing Contemporary Citizenship: The Case for Qualitative Methods,Assessing citizenship is a complicated matter. As the literature I have reviewed here suggests, citizenship involves a complex interplay of virtues, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. Such complexity and depth invites a qualitative approach to studies in this area.

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,History’s Standards of Good Citizenship,e need answers to the questions that have occupied the attention of philosophers, political scholars, and social scientists for thousands of years: What is citizenship? What constitutes a citizen? What do good citizens do? What do good citizens believe? These questions are wracked by tensions betwee

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,Wireheads as New Minimalists:“I gave at the office”,f the list? . by Nirvana, the quintessential Seattle grunge band. The program followed this announcement with a gauzy portrayal of lead singer Kurt Cobain, a scruffy young poet/musician. In the ensuing clip and commentary, the host of the program christened Mr. Cobain a spokesman for Generation X an

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Tech Elites: Bridging Old and New Social Capital,neurs that dominated the euphoria of the “New Economy” as the “New Imperialists” and argued that these “five restless kids grew up to virtually rule your world.” Proving that recovering . journalists can lapse into fits of hyperbole just as much as Silicon Valley CEOs can, Leibovich constructs a com

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,Trailing Xers, Rising Millennials, and Two Clichés,ving in Austin, Texas. During the writing of this study, Gen X critics Howe and Strauss (2000) found a cohort to laud as effusively as their Baby Boomer comrades—the so-called Millennial or “Generation Y”. Unlike Generation X, in their view, these young people born after 1981 were “rising” to become

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Embracing and Surfing Social Change: Generation X and New Norms of Civic Life and Social Capital, and social capital? Certainly this study took place during a tumultuous time. The euphoria of the tech bubble was at a fevered pitch when I penned my proposal in mid-2000: NASDAQ at 5000, Dow at 11,000. Then, the bust. Then the attacks of September 11—all of which occurred during my data collection

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Closing Thoughts, this final version. I find it ironic that, in a text that posits relentless acceleration of change as a fundamental to the reality of our world, the core insights from these respondents have held up remarkably well since our initial interviews in 2000–2001. Yet that reality is juxtaposed over a fun