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Bowling Alone

The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By Robert D. Putnam

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| Paperback | 9780743203043

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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 vastContinue

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.

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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    Bowling Alone is a rich, dense, thoughtful, and fascinating book. It will surely be much talked about, and it deserves to be. It is extremely readable—and not merely by the rather low standards of academic political science; and it is packed with pro ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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  • A wealth of material to support Punam's thesis. very well written and better documented. A must read.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 544 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0743203046
  • ISBN-13: 9780743203043
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Pub date: Aug 07, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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