Changes in the economy and the increase in inequality in the United States have led to a variety of popular responses. One of th
ese was the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began in 2011 as a small local protest in New York City. One of the slogans that emerged from the Occupy movement was, "We are the 99%." The Occupy protests often drew strong responses from authorities like the police and from those who were unsympathetic to the protestors. What kind of social capital did this movement foster
BRIDGING SOCIAL CAPITAL is one part of Social Capital as opined by Robert Putnam with the other being BONDING.
Bridging Social Capital describes a connection between people that hail from different demographics in a society such as race, class, religion, etc. It in effect refers to connections that 'bridge' communities together.
The Occupy Wall Street movement brought people together regardless of their social designation hence it being BRIDGING.
<span>people tend to be less inhibited in their behavior and take greater risks when in a group than when they're alone. Which psychologist finds this interesting</span>
On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century.
According to the Confucian structure of society, women at every level were to occupy a position lower than men. Most Confucians accepted the subservience of women to men as natural and proper. At the same time they accorded women's honor and power as mother and mother-in-law within their family.
