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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... civic engagement and social capital in all aspects of life.” —James Davison Hunter, The Weekly Standard “A powerful sociological portrait of a democracy in imminent decline—a portrait as perspicacious, deeply felt, and firmly rooted in ...
... civic engagement and social capital in all aspects of life.” —James Davison Hunter, The Weekly Standard “A powerful sociological portrait of a democracy in imminent decline—a portrait as perspicacious, deeply felt, and firmly rooted in ...
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... civic engagement and social connectedness in the twenty- first century. Before October 29, 1997, John Lambert and Andy Boschma knew each other only through their local bowling league at the Ypsi- Arbor Lanes in Ypsilanti, Michigan ...
... civic engagement and social connectedness in the twenty- first century. Before October 29, 1997, John Lambert and Andy Boschma knew each other only through their local bowling league at the Ypsi- Arbor Lanes in Ypsilanti, Michigan ...
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... civic statistics for Americans over more than two decades. How did patterns of civic and political participation change over this period? The answer is simple: The frequency of virtually every form of community involvement measured in ...
... civic statistics for Americans over more than two decades. How did patterns of civic and political participation change over this period? The answer is simple: The frequency of virtually every form of community involvement measured in ...
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... civic infrastructure simply evaporated between the mid- 1970s and the mid- 1990s. Finally, the Roper surveys also ... Engagement II: Communal Participation Figure 6: Trends in Civic Engagement III: Public Expression.
... civic infrastructure simply evaporated between the mid- 1970s and the mid- 1990s. Finally, the Roper surveys also ... Engagement II: Communal Participation Figure 6: Trends in Civic Engagement III: Public Expression.
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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