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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... United States. . . . Bowling Alone is to be commended for stimulating awareness of civic engagement and providing a wealth of data on trends in contemporary America.” —Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post “A mountainous, momentous work ...
... United States. . . . Bowling Alone is to be commended for stimulating awareness of civic engagement and providing a wealth of data on trends in contemporary America.” —Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post “A mountainous, momentous work ...
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... United States has lost much of the social glue that once allowed our society to cohere, that we are in danger of becoming a nation of strangers to one another without adequate social bonds, is certain to become a central part of our ...
... United States has lost much of the social glue that once allowed our society to cohere, that we are in danger of becoming a nation of strangers to one another without adequate social bonds, is certain to become a central part of our ...
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... United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. ISBN 978-1-9821-3084-8 ISBN 978-0-7432-1903-7 (ebook) To Ruth Swank Putnam and to the memory of Frank.
... United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. ISBN 978-1-9821-3084-8 ISBN 978-0-7432-1903-7 (ebook) To Ruth Swank Putnam and to the memory of Frank.
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... United Way) continued to fall, just as Bowling Alone had anticipated.9 • According to the best available evidence, social trust has deteriorated further over the past twenty years as well. This continues to be explained in part by ...
... United Way) continued to fall, just as Bowling Alone had anticipated.9 • According to the best available evidence, social trust has deteriorated further over the past twenty years as well. This continues to be explained in part by ...
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... United States and abroad.27 And in 2004 the Whitney Museum of American Art curated Social Capital: Forms of Interaction, Relations in Contemporary Art, an exhibition at the City University of New York. Twenty-five years ago, was an ...
... United States and abroad.27 And in 2004 the Whitney Museum of American Art curated Social Capital: Forms of Interaction, Relations in Contemporary Art, an exhibition at the City University of New York. Twenty-five years ago, was an ...
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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