Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityOnce we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures -- whether they be PTA, church, or political parties -- have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe. Like defining works from the past, such as The Lonely Crowd and The Affluent Society, and like the works of C. Wright Mills and Betty Friedan, Putnam's Bowling Alone has identified a central crisis at the heart of our society and suggests what we can do. |
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... democracy in imminent decline—a portrait as perspicacious, deeply felt, and firmly rooted in data as the classic American portraits rendered in ... The Lonely Crowd. ... Bowling Alone is a modern classic: a model of fastidious, prudent ...
... democracy in imminent decline—a portrait as perspicacious, deeply felt, and firmly rooted in data as the classic American portraits rendered in ... The Lonely Crowd. ... Bowling Alone is a modern classic: a model of fastidious, prudent ...
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... Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (edited with Susan J. Pharr) Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti) Double-Edged Democracy: International ...
... Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (edited with Susan J. Pharr) Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti) Double-Edged Democracy: International ...
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... Democracy chapter 22: The Dark Side of Social Capital 287 296 307 319 326 336 350 section v: What Is to Be Done? 367 chapter 23: Lessons of History: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era chapter 24: Toward an Agenda for Social ...
... Democracy chapter 22: The Dark Side of Social Capital 287 296 307 319 326 336 350 section v: What Is to Be Done? 367 chapter 23: Lessons of History: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era chapter 24: Toward an Agenda for Social ...
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... democracies depend upon social connectedness—I began to wonder if some of the challenges America was facing as we approached the end of the twentieth century might have their roots in a shrinking stock of social capital. At the time, I ...
... democracies depend upon social connectedness—I began to wonder if some of the challenges America was facing as we approached the end of the twentieth century might have their roots in a shrinking stock of social capital. At the time, I ...
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... democracy” and “all power to the people” seemed to augur ever more widespread engagement in community affairs. One of America's most acute social observers prophesied in 1968, “Participatory democracy has all along been the political ...
... democracy” and “all power to the people” seemed to augur ever more widespread engagement in community affairs. One of America's most acute social observers prophesied in 1968, “Participatory democracy has all along been the political ...
Contents
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Connections in the Workplace | 80 |
Informal Social Connections | 93 |
Altruism Volunteering and Philanthropy | 116 |
Education and Childrens Welfare | 296 |
Safe and Productive Neighborhoods | 307 |
Economic Prosperity | 319 |
Health and Happiness | 326 |
Democracy | 336 |
The Dark Side of Social Capital | 350 |
What Is to Be Done? | 365 |
Toward an Agenda for Social Capitalists | 402 |
Reciprocity Honesty and Trust | 134 |
Against the Tide? Small Groups Social Movements and the Net | 148 |
Why? | 183 |
Mobility and Sprawl | 204 |
Technology and Mass Media | 216 |
From Generation to Generation | 247 |
What Killed Civic Engagement? Summing Up | 277 |
So What? with the assistance of Kristin A Goss | 285 |
Has the Internet Reversed the Decline | 415 |
Measuring Social Change | 447 |
Sources for Figures and Tables | 457 |
The Rise and Fall of Civic and | 469 |
notes | 477 |
the story behind this book | 545 |
index | 555 |
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