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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... group of Michigan State students were taking an open-book exam for a course in American Politics, for which they had read Bowling Alone. One of the questions on the final exam was, “What would Robert Putnam say about ______?” The ...
... group of Michigan State students were taking an open-book exam for a course in American Politics, for which they had read Bowling Alone. One of the questions on the final exam was, “What would Robert Putnam say about ______?” The ...
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... group—from a homemaker in Windermere, England, to Neil Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine. I was moved by how many readers ... group at Harvard helped organize) a group of more than three dozen towns and cities nationwide to use scientific ...
... group—from a homemaker in Windermere, England, to Neil Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine. I was moved by how many readers ... group at Harvard helped organize) a group of more than three dozen towns and cities nationwide to use scientific ...
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... groups. Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church- based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs. Other networks are outward looking and encompass people across diverse social ...
... groups. Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church- based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs. Other networks are outward looking and encompass people across diverse social ...
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... groups simultaneously bond along some social dimensions and bridge across others. The black church, for example, brings together people of the same race and religion across class lines. The Knights of Columbus was created to bridge ...
... groups simultaneously bond along some social dimensions and bridge across others. The black church, for example, brings together people of the same race and religion across class lines. The Knights of Columbus was created to bridge ...
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... groups. Some of us hang out at the local bar association and others at the local bar. Some of us attend mass once a day, while others struggle to remember to send holiday greetings once a year. The forms of our social capital—the ways ...
... groups. Some of us hang out at the local bar association and others at the local bar. Some of us attend mass once a day, while others struggle to remember to send holiday greetings once a year. The forms of our social capital—the ways ...
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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