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Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community / Robert D. Putnam.

Title: Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community / Robert D. Putnam.
Author: Putnam, Robert D.
Publication: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2000]

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1 online resource (541 pages) : illustrations

Summary

"Putnam's work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of social capital is felt in critical ways: Communities with less social capital have lower educational performance and more teen pregnancy, child suicide, low birth weight, and prenatal mortality. Social capital is also a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, as it is of our health: In quantitative terms, if you both smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to which is the riskier behavior."--Jacket.
"Once 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."--Provided by publisher.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-504) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Thinking about social change in America -- Political participation -- Civic participation -- Religious participation -- Connections in the workplace -- Informal social connections -- Altruism, volunteering, and philanthropy -- Reciprocity, honesty, and trust -- Against the tide? : small groups, social movements, and the Net -- Pressures of time and money -- Mobility and sprawl -- Technology and mass media -- From generation to generation -- What killed civic engagement? : summing up -- Education and children's welfare -- Safe and productive neighborhoods -- Economic prosperity -- Health and happiness -- Democracy -- The dark side of social capital -- Lessons of history : the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era -- Toward an agenda for social capitalists.

ISBN

9780743219037
0743219031
0684832836
9780684832838
0734203047
9780734203045
9780684832838 (canceled/invalid)
0684832836 (canceled/invalid)
9780734203043 (canceled/invalid)
0743203046 (canceled/invalid)
9780743203043 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

9780684832838

OCLC

765746920
SCSB-10797530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library