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  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.
  
  Amazon.com Review
  Few people outside
certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure
academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David,
his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that civil
society was breaking down as Americans became more disconnected from their families, neighbors, communities, and the
republic itself. The organizations that gave life to democracy were fraying. Bowling became his driving metaphor. Years
ago, he wrote, thousands of people belonged to bowling leagues. Today, however, they're more likely to bowl alone:

 
   Television, two-career families, suburban sprawl, generational changes in values--these and other changes in
American society have meant that fewer and fewer of us find that the League of Women Voters, or the United Way, or the
Shriners, or the monthly bridge club, or even a Sunday picnic with friends fits the way we have come to live. Our
growing social-capital deficit threatens educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection,
democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health and happiness.
  
  The conclusions reached
in the book Bowling Alone rest on a mountain of data gathered by Putnam and a team of researchers since his original
essay appeared. Its breadth of information is astounding--yes, he really has statistics showing people are less likely
to take Sunday picnics nowadays. Dozens of charts and graphs track everything from trends in PTA participation to the
number of times Americans say they give "the finger" to other drivers each year. If nothing else, Bowling Alone is a
fascinating collection of factoids. Yet it does seem to provide an explanation for why "we tell pollsters that we wish
we lived in a more civil, more trustworthy, more collectively caring community." What's more, writes Putnam, "Americans
are right that the bonds of our communities have withered, and we are right to fear that this transformation has very
real costs." Putnam takes a stab at suggesting how things might change, but the book's real strength is in its diagnosis
rather than its proposed solutions. Bowling Alone won't make Putnam any less controversial, but it may come to be known
as a path-breaking work of scholarship, one whose influence has a long reach into the 21st century. --John J. Miller
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
  From Publishers Weekly
  "If you
don't go to somebody's funeral, they won't come to yours," Yogi Berra once said, neatly articulating the value of social
networks. In this alarming and important study, Putnam, a professor of sociology at Harvard, charts the grievous
deterioration over the past two generations of the organized ways in which people relate to one another and partake in
civil life in the U.S. For example, in 1960, 62.8% of Americans of voting age participated in the presidential election,
whereas by 1996, the percentage had slipped to 48.9%. While most Americans still claim a serious "religious commitment,"
church attendance is down roughly 25%-50% from the 1950s, and the number of Americans who attended public meetings of
any kind dropped 40% between 1973 and 1994. Even the once stable norm of community life has shifted: one in five
Americans moves once a year, while two in five expect to move in five years. Putnam claims that this has created a U.S.
population that is increasingly isolated and less empathetic toward its fellow citizens, that is often angrier and less
willing to unite in communities or as a nation. Marshaling a plentiful array of facts, figures, charts and survey
results, Putnam delivers his message with verve and clarity. He concludes his analysis with a concise set of potential
solutions, such as educational programs, work-based initiatives and funded community-service programs, offering a ray of
hope in what he perceives to be a dire situation.
  
  Biography
  Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and
Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and founder of the Saguaro Seminar, a program dedicated
to fostering civic engagement in America. He is the author or coauthor of ten previous books and is former dean of the
John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
  
   						

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