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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Page 7
... responses, most of which described the generosity, kindness, and trust that characterized the respondents' hometowns. In fact, Bowling Alone stimulated scores of communities in America to reflect on their past strengths and plans for ...
... responses, most of which described the generosity, kindness, and trust that characterized the respondents' hometowns. In fact, Bowling Alone stimulated scores of communities in America to reflect on their past strengths and plans for ...
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... response to the book thrust me into the limelight and changed the course of my career. And I've long reflected on the question of why Bowling Alone struck such a chord. I tried conscientiously to write simultaneously for two different ...
... response to the book thrust me into the limelight and changed the course of my career. And I've long reflected on the question of why Bowling Alone struck such a chord. I tried conscientiously to write simultaneously for two different ...
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... response to this book has always felt like a testament to America's embattled but never vanquished community spirit, and the inextricable place of social capital in the success or failure of 4P_Putnam_BowlingAlone_35915.indd 10 8/3/20 ...
... response to this book has always felt like a testament to America's embattled but never vanquished community spirit, and the inextricable place of social capital in the success or failure of 4P_Putnam_BowlingAlone_35915.indd 10 8/3/20 ...
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... responses, we have much to learn—not least that civic decay like that around us can be reversed. This volume offers no simple cures for our contemporary ills. In the final section my aim is to provoke (and perhaps contribute to) a ...
... responses, we have much to learn—not least that civic decay like that around us can be reversed. This volume offers no simple cures for our contemporary ills. In the final section my aim is to provoke (and perhaps contribute to) a ...
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... response to daily headlines, but the base level of interest is gradually fading, as an older generation of news and politics junkies passes slowly from the scene. The fact that the decline is generation- specific, rather than nationwide ...
... response to daily headlines, but the base level of interest is gradually fading, as an older generation of news and politics junkies passes slowly from the scene. The fact that the decline is generation- specific, rather than nationwide ...
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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