Critical Perspectives on Community and Bowling Alone英文资料.pdf

464 Book Reviews This is not a text to guide boards as they perform the full spectrum of their duties. Given its narrow focus, the appeal of this book may be rather limited. However, it may be especially of interest to professionals who are considering serving as executive directors in arts-related organizations. The slice of reality involving elite boards in this text could equip these potential arts administrators with a clearer understanding of what lies ahead for them as they navigate their organization into the future. Dean F. Eitel Public Services Graduate Program DePaul University Illinois, United States Scott L. McLean, David A. Schultz, and Manfred B. Steger (eds.), Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on Community and Bowling Alone, New York University Press, New York, 2002, 292 pp., foreword, index, $18.50 (paper), $55.00 (hbk). This book specifically addresses Putnam’s recent work, as stated in the title, and does so from a number of different angles. The first section, for example, critically engages de Tocqueville and explores differences between his thinking and Putnam’s interpretation. The second section, entitled historical perspectives, provides a critique of Putnam’s work from a number of different stances that are explored historically. The third section purports to take a more applied approach and appears at first reading to be a little less critical than the other sections, however, each chapter within this section also addresses Putnam’s work from the standpoint of a single issue or perspective. Overall, while there is some sense of repetition, most particularly in the fo- cus on equality, the reader emerges with