Bowling Alone

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• Bowling Alone

  Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). In a groundbreaking book based on vast data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neigh...

• Robert D. Putnam | Bowling Alone

  , a groundbreaking examination of the growing opportunity gap. Putnam’s 2010 book,  American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites us, co-authored with David Campbell of Notre Dame, won the American ...

• Social Capital Primer | Bowling Alone

  Social Capital Primer The central premise of social capital is that social networks have value. Social capital refers to the collective value of all “social networks” [who people know] and the inclina...

• Social Capital: Historical Perspective from the Progressive Era | Bowling Alone

  Social Capital: Historical Perspective from the Progressive Era The thesis of Bowling Alone is that a variety of technological, social, and economic changes over the last three decades have “rendered ...

• Contact | Bowling Alone

  Every ten minutes of commuting reduces all forms of social capital by 10% Watching commercial entertainment TV is the only leisure activity where doing more of it is associated with lower social capit...

• Research | Bowling Alone

  Selected statistical trend data Three primary data sets were used extensively in the research reported in Bowling Alone: Collapse and Revival of American Community.   Interested researchers should con...