Social skills

comments to the article :Phil Agre, The Practical Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship

In this article I was interested in third element of social capital which is often left out, namely social skills. This skills should not be taken for granted and we have to think about if anyone have the same chance to learn this skills.

Good idea : “But social reform activities based on building social capital may not succeed, or may even reinforce existing social inequalities, unless explicit attention is paid to building the necessary social skills among those segments of the population that lack them.”

I like also the part about viewing individual citizens as participants in debates on a collective level and the part when autor polemizeing if the USA are republic, because some people thought that the United States is a republic because it is not a democracy.

I´m not very interested in the Republicanism and and stuff like this, so this was not very interesting article for me.