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

Pub Info	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2000]
	©2000

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Table of Contents
Ch. 1	Thinking about Social Change in America	15
Ch. 2	Political Participation	31
Ch. 3	Civic Participation	48
Ch. 4	Religious Participation	65
Ch. 5	Connections in the Workplace	80
Ch. 6	Informal Social Connections	93
Ch. 7	Altruism, Volunteering, and Philanthropy	116
Ch. 8	Reciprocity, Honesty, and Trust	134
Ch. 9	Against the Tide? Small Groups, Social Movements, and the Net	148
Ch. 10	Introduction	183
Ch. 11	Pressures of Time and Money	189
Ch. 12	Mobility and Sprawl	204
Ch. 13	Technology and Mass Media	216
Ch. 14	From Generation to Generation	247
Ch. 15	What Killed Civic Engagement? Summing UP	277
Ch. 16	Introduction	287
Ch. 17	Education and Children's Welfare	296
Ch. 18	Safe and Productive Neighborhoods	307
Ch. 19	Economic Prosperity	319
Ch. 20	Health and Happiness	326
Ch. 21	Democracy	336
Ch. 22	The Dark Side of Social Capital	350
Ch. 23	Lessons of History: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era	367
Ch. 24	Toward an Agenda for Social Capitalists	402
Appendix I	Measuring Social Change	415
Appendix II	Sources for Figures and Tables	425
Appendix III	The Rise and Fall of Civic and Professional Associations	437
	Notes	445
	The Story behind this Book	505
	Index	515

Call no.	306.0973 PUTN
Phys. Description	541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content Type	text
Format Type	volume
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-504) and index.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
	Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN	9780743203043
	0743203046
	0684832836
	9780684832838