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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... bonding,” and the fact that something palpable had begun to change in America. The article's unexpected reception put me on a winding path to explore these questions in earnest—mining obscure troves of data, developing original ...
... bonding,” and the fact that something palpable had begun to change in America. The article's unexpected reception put me on a winding path to explore these questions in earnest—mining obscure troves of data, developing original ...
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... fact declined. In examining the hypothesis of a decline in informal social connections, Bowling Alone drew on many different data sources, but the dispute between Fischer and McPherson et al. raged entirely on the basis of a single data ...
... fact declined. In examining the hypothesis of a decline in informal social connections, Bowling Alone drew on many different data sources, but the dispute between Fischer and McPherson et al. raged entirely on the basis of a single data ...
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... fact moving in the opposite direction. The story of social capital in America during the past 125 years turns out to look like an inverted U-curve—starting the century at nearly the same low we experience today, growing until roughly ...
... fact moving in the opposite direction. The story of social capital in America during the past 125 years turns out to look like an inverted U-curve—starting the century at nearly the same low we experience today, growing until roughly ...
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... fact, Bowling Alone seems to have had a special impact on American college campuses. Institutionally speaking, the book became, as the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, New York, wrote, “a wake-up call for universities ... part of ...
... fact, Bowling Alone seems to have had a special impact on American college campuses. Institutionally speaking, the book became, as the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, New York, wrote, “a wake-up call for universities ... part of ...
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... fact, community groups across America had seemed to stand on the threshold of a new era of expanded involvement. Except for the civic drought induced by the Great Depression, their activity had shot up year after year, cultivated by ...
... fact, community groups across America had seemed to stand on the threshold of a new era of expanded involvement. Except for the civic drought induced by the Great Depression, their activity had shot up year after year, cultivated by ...
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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