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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... Neighborhoods chapter 19: Economic Prosperity chapter 20: Health and Happiness chapter 21: Democracy chapter 22: The Dark Side of Social Capital 287 296 307 319 326 336 350 section v: What Is to Be Done? 367 chapter 23: Lessons of ...
... Neighborhoods chapter 19: Economic Prosperity chapter 20: Health and Happiness chapter 21: Democracy chapter 22: The Dark Side of Social Capital 287 296 307 319 326 336 350 section v: What Is to Be Done? 367 chapter 23: Lessons of ...
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... neighborhood in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the 1950s,” they'd tell me. On the other hand, a number of my own high school classmates and bowling teammates from Port Clinton, Ohio, wrote to compare notes about whether my rendition of the ...
... neighborhood in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the 1950s,” they'd tell me. On the other hand, a number of my own high school classmates and bowling teammates from Port Clinton, Ohio, wrote to compare notes about whether my rendition of the ...
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... neighborhood, hosting wedding receptions and class reunions. By 1999, however, membership had so dwindled that it was a struggle just to pay taxes on the yellow brick post hall. Although numerous veterans of Vietnam and the post ...
... neighborhood, hosting wedding receptions and class reunions. By 1999, however, membership had so dwindled that it was a struggle just to pay taxes on the yellow brick post hall. Although numerous veterans of Vietnam and the post ...
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... neighborhood committees to improve the local roads and garbage collections and to hound their public servants into doing what the name implies.5 The civic- minded World War II generation was, as its own John F. Kennedy proclaimed at his ...
... neighborhood committees to improve the local roads and garbage collections and to hound their public servants into doing what the name implies.5 The civic- minded World War II generation was, as its own John F. Kennedy proclaimed at his ...
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... neighborhood is lowered by neighbors keeping an eye on one another's homes, I benefit even if I personally spend most of my the road and never even nod to another resident on the street. Social capital can thus be simultaneously a ...
... neighborhood is lowered by neighbors keeping an eye on one another's homes, I benefit even if I personally spend most of my the road and never even nod to another resident on the street. Social capital can thus be simultaneously a ...
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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