| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-504) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0684832836 |
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9780684832838 |
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0743203046 |
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9780743203043 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780684832838 |
| Description |
541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Content type |
text |
| Media type |
unmediated |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Descript |
illustration rdaill |
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