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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.Description: 541 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0684832836
  • 9780684832838
  • 0743203046 (pbk.)
  • 9780743203043 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HN65 .P878 2001
Other classification:
  • 71.40
  • MG 70010
  • MG 70020
  • MG 70070
  • MG 72070
  • MS 1235
  • MS 1280
  • PSY 400f
  • SOZ 350f
Online resources:
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: Packed with provocative information about the social and political habits of twentieth-century Americans.
List(s) this item appears in: Leading Change
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-504) and index.

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.

Packed with provocative information about the social and political habits of twentieth-century Americans.

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