@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7sd92.6,
 ISBN = {9780691096513},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sd92.6},
 abstract = {“Feelings and ideas are renewed, the heart enlarged, and the understanding developed only by the reciprocal action of men one upon another.”¹ Social observers quote few sentences more frequently than this one, written by the famous nineteenth-century observer of American life, Alexis de Tocqueville. He was describing what could happen when people participate in civic groups. Many theorists and commentators cite Tocqueville’s paean when they argue that civic groups help people spiral outward: By participating in civic groups, people’s horizons expand so that they come to care more about people not only in the group, but in the wider community.},
 bookauthor = {Paul Lichterman},
 booktitle = {Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions},
 pages = {7--41},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {IN SEARCH OF THE SOCIAL SPIRAL},
 year = {2005}
}