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.
How well did you choose your parents? Commons His 1996 best-selling title Bowling Alone was a seminal book in the field. But Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is turning his research toward the growing inequality-of-opportunity gap in the United States ... |
The One Thing Politicians Can Agree on Huffington Post (blog) Harvard University's Robert Putman was among the first social scientists to document this in his 2000 tome "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community." He found that families eating together nightly declined from 50% in 1977 to 34% ... |
Voting with their wheels Mooresville Tribune One prominent writer who's lamented the decline in voting is Robert D. Putnam in “Bowling Alone – The Collapse and Revival of American Community.” I've not yet finished reading “Bowling.” Perhaps later in the book Putnam will address the proportional ... and more » |
MinnPost.com (blog) | Increasing social connectedness: Let's make a difference MinnPost.com (blog) By Melanie Ferris | 05/11/12 In Robert Putnam's book, "Bowling Alone," he demonstrated that since the 1960s, Americans have become less involved in their communities, less trusting in their neighbors, and less likely to give of their time and resources ... |
The Future of Social Networks Business 2 Community Much of this certainty comes from a book written by Robert Putnam called “Bowling Alone”. In the book, Putnam makes a strong case for the importance of community or deep, repetitious social interactions. He traces the history of human interaction in ... and more » |
The National | Absence of outsider Mohammad Asif will be felt by Pakistan The National That day, Asif talked for nearly an hour on bowling alone, to batsmen like Jacques Kallis and Kevin Pietersen, or at Karachi's National Stadium which was his favourite ground because both ends helped swing in the afternoon and about seam bowling and ... |
CEO of the Household: You are not alone The City Wire Heiferman was reading Bowling Alone, Robert Putman's book about the collapse of community in America. It has undergone changes in the last 11 years but today it is a social networking site that facilitates offline group meetings in local areas. |
All-American Avengers Take on Aliens, Alienation Huffington Post (blog) It's a litany of loneliness very familiar in our culture just now, from Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone to the recent Atlantic cover story on how Facebook can, paradoxically, make us even more lonely and certainly more self-contained. and more » |
Social media replacing the public square? The Seattle Times Robert Putnam, in “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” says that people in the US simply are not joining groups. Both technology and commerce are antagonistic to social capital and exploit every means they can to wean people ... |
Like It Or Not, Diversity Isn't Going Anywhere NPR That study was by Robert Putnam, the social scientist famous for his previous work on civic engagement, Bowling Alone. The work I'm talking about was a massive study of how diversity affects civic engagement, and he found — to his discomfort, ... and more » |
