The United States and the World. From Imitation to Challenge

Andrzej Mania, Łukasz Wordliczek

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. The United States and the World. From Imitation to Challenge. Red. Mania, Andrzej; Wordliczek, Łukasz . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2010, 340 s. ISBN 978-83-233-2952-7

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Introduction4
I. Contemporary American Society and Politics10
Małgorzata Dziekońska, Connections in the Workplace as a Way of Accumulating Social Capital by Polish Immigrants in the USA10
David J. Jackson and Robert Mominee, Culture, Socialization, and Policy19
Marta Koval, How to Make Stories about the Iraqi War: "Commodified" Memory and Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic Violence33
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Bill Armaline, Kathy Farber, In Search of Democratic Education. Creating Myth, False Promise or Bright Future?41
Bohdan Szklarski, Windows, Streams, and Organized Disorder: Presidential Struggle for Control of Political Agenda53
Crister Garrett, To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space67
II. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters67
David A. Jones, A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis78
David A. Jones and Joanna Waluk, The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation91
Zinovia Lialiouti, Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the "American Way of Life" in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece104
Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Universal Pictures: Propaganda - Export - Exchange126
III. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy141
Karol Derwich, Washington Consensus: Dead or Alive?141
Dominik Kopiński, What Drives U.S. Official Development Assistance (And Why It´s not Development)?151
Grzegorz Nycz, Confronting the Global Frontier: The Promotion of American Democracy as a Challenge to the Multipolar World Order165
Piotr Waldemar Pietrzak, American "Soft Power" after George W. Bush´s Presidency173
Andrzej Polus, Norms and Values in American International Relations Theories191
Małgorzata Zachara, American Strategy Toward Global Governance. New Leadership or Crisis of Identity?195
IV. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values207
Paweł Laidler, Lack of Arguments or a Common Sense: Reasons of the U.S. Supreme Court´s Preferences to International Community in the Process of Constitutional Interpretation207
Renata Nowaczewska, American Private Foundations: Global Philanthropy or Global Hegemony225
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, William Thomas Stead and His 1901 Vision of the Americanized World235
Marius Văcărelu, Th e United State´s Influence in the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe: Romania´s Right to a Good Administration247
Tomasz Wieciech, American Concept of Federal Union and Its Worldwide Influence255
Benjamin P. Greene, American Exceptionalism: Challenges and Renewals268
V. Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion268
Patricia S. Hart, Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama´s Presidential Media Campaign274
Karsten Senkbeil, Baseball and American Exceptionalism287
Krzysztof Michałek , Th e Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama´s Examples)300
VI. Continuity and Change300
Monika Różalska, Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of `Complex´ Interdependence Theory304
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde, Bernadette G. Vega Sánchez, Th e Obama Presidency and the New Roads for the American Way: Has the Past Been Left Behind?332

I.ContemporaryAmericanSocietyandPolitics

Tetheoryofsocialcapitalhasbeenwidelyappliedtosocialresearchnowadays.Itis

PierreBourdieu(1986),aFrenchphilosopherwhoisknownasthe“father”ofthemost

precisedeﬁnitionoftheconcept(Portes1998).2Bourdieuhasmanyfollowers,among

whomRobertPutnam,anAmericansociologist,iswell-acknowledged,althoughhis

conceptofsocialcapitaldifersfromBourdieu,s.Bourdieuconcentratesontherelation

betweenactorswithinthesocialnetwork,whilePutnamfocusesonthemechanisms

thatuniteactorsintoanorganization.Tesemechanismsaredeﬁnedas“featuresof

socialorganizationsuchasnetworks,norms,andsocialtrustthatfacilitatecoordination

andcooperationformutualbeneﬁt”(Putnam1995,67).Putnamappliesthisnotion

toanalyzeAmericansocietyattheendofthe20thcentury.TekeyﬁndinginBowling

Alone(2000)isthatAmericansareincreasinglydisconnectingfromoneanother,and

thatsocialstructuresaredisintegrating.Amongmanyexplanationsforthedisintegra-

tion3heplacesconnectionsintheworkplacewhich,inhisview,usedtobeoneofthe

strongestmeansofaccumulatingsocialcapitaldecadesago.Itcomesnaturallythatit

ishisideaofsocialcapitalthatshouldbeappliedtocheckwhetherconnectionsinthe

workplaceareoneofmanywaysofaccumulatingsocialcapitalbyPolishimmigrants

workinginanAmericanenvironment.

Socialcapitalintheworkplace

Workplacedeﬁnitelyisanimportantsourceofsocialcapital,because:“[s]incemoreof

usareworkingoutsidethehometodaythanagenerationago,perhapswehavesimply

transferredmoreofourfriendships,moreofourcivicdiscussions,andmoreofour

communitytiesfromthefrontporchtothewatercooler”(Putnam2000,85).Tere

arethreewaysofaccumulatingsocialcapitalintheworkplace,namelybytradeunions,

byprofessionalassociations,andbyinformalsocialconnections.InthispaperIwill

concentrateonthelatter.

WhenPutnamstatesthatpeople,slivesrevolvearoundworknowadaysmorethan

everbefore,andthatithasresultedinashifofsociallifefromhometowork,healso

providesgoodexplanationsforhisstandpoint.Suchashifbeyonddoubtquietsfam-

ilyproblemsforagreatpartoftheday:“Itservesasasanctuaryfromthestressesof

marriage,childrenandhousework”(86);inthecaseofmanypeoplewholivealone

(single,divorced,nevermarriedormarriedlate),workandwork-relatedactivities

fulﬁlltheirday(eatinglunchesordinnerstogether,arrivingearlyandstayinglate,

2Tenotionofsocialcapitalhadsignaleditspresenceasearlyas1916;accordingtothedeﬁnitionofsocial

capitalinSłownikSpołeczny,LydaJudsonHanifan(1916)ﬁrstappliedthisterm,meaning“realvalues

whichmatterineverydaylife”

.Tetermwasnotacceptedatthattime;itreappearedatthebeginningofthe

1960,sintheworksofJaneJacobsonurbanplanningandinthe1980,sintheworksofJamesS.Coleman

onthesocialroleofeducation.ItwasColemanwhopropagatedtheidea;PierreBourdieuandRobert

Putnamhavespreaditinthecontemporaryworld(Putnam2000,19).

Healsoelaboratesonpolitical,civic,religiousparticipation,informalsocialconnections,volunteer-

ing,philanthropy,smallgroups,socialmovements,andnotionssuchasaltruism,trust,honesty,and

reciprocity.

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