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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 84
Page
... chapter 1: Thinking about Social Change in America 15 section ii: Trends in Civic Engagement and Social Capital chapter 2: Political Participation chapter 3: Civic Participation chapter 4: Religious Participation chapter 5: Connections ...
... chapter 1: Thinking about Social Change in America 15 section ii: Trends in Civic Engagement and Social Capital chapter 2: Political Participation chapter 3: Civic Participation chapter 4: Religious Participation chapter 5: Connections ...
Page
... chapter 14: From Generation to Generation chapter 15: What Killed Civic Engagement? Summing Up 216 247 277 section iv: So What? (with the assistance of Kristin A. Goss) chapter 16: Introduction chapter 17: Education and Children's ...
... chapter 14: From Generation to Generation chapter 15: What Killed Civic Engagement? Summing Up 216 247 277 section iv: So What? (with the assistance of Kristin A. Goss) chapter 16: Introduction chapter 17: Education and Children's ...
Page 11
... chapter evokes. SECTION ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER Thinking about Social Change in 4P_Putnam_BowlingAlone_35915.indd 11 8/3/20 12:40 PM preface 11.
... chapter evokes. SECTION ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER Thinking about Social Change in 4P_Putnam_BowlingAlone_35915.indd 11 8/3/20 12:40 PM preface 11.
Page 13
The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam. SECTION ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER Thinking about Social Change in America No one 4P_Putnam_BowlingAlone_35915.indd 13 8/3/20 12:40 PM section i: Introduction.
The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam. SECTION ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER Thinking about Social Change in America No one 4P_Putnam_BowlingAlone_35915.indd 13 8/3/20 12:40 PM section i: Introduction.
Page 15
... chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had been an active force for civil rights since 1918, but during the 1990s membership withered from about 2,500 to a few hundred. By November 1998 even a ...
... chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had been an active force for civil rights since 1918, but during the 1990s membership withered from about 2,500 to a few hundred. By November 1998 even a ...
Contents
1 | |
15 | |
29 | |
48 | |
65 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American ... Robert D. Putnam No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
activities adults American analysis archive associations attendance average become Bowling century chapter church civic engagement club compared connections correlated DDB Needham decades decline Democracy economic effects equality evidence example face fact factors figure five forms four fraction friends giving groups growth half important income increase individual institutions interest Internet involvement John Journal least less levels lives measures meetings membership movement nearly Needham Life Style neighborhood networks organizations parents participation percent period political population question recent relative religious reported Research Review rise Robert Roper roughly share shows single Social and Political social capital society Statistics suggests surveys television third tion Trends trust turn twentieth century twenty United University Press Urban virtually volunteering watching women World York