Putnam argues that caring about the community, about the common good, reached a peak around and after WWII. Since the 1960ies communal values have been in decline and individual values became ever more important. He reports on interesting proxies that can be used to measure this, such as the frequency of words such as "I" and "we".
I’m not a historian. However, I believe some of this goes much further back in time.
Putnam argues that caring about the community, about the common good, reached a peak around and after WWII. Since the 1960ies communal values have been in decline and individual values became ever more important. He reports on interesting proxies that can be used to measure this, such as the frequency of words such as "I" and "we".