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Putnam is causing me grief. I can't write about community and not discuss Putnam, but his work doesn't really fit with what I'm doing. Or rather, a discussion of social capital doesn't really fit with the rest of my work. More specifically, the original and arguably superior conception of social capital as an individual level variable doesn't fit what I'm doing. Putnam's use of community-level social capital does fit, sort of, but many people (including me) think that he had to distort it rather badly to get it to where he wanted it. Curses on his extreme influence.