Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Bowling Alone:

The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam (2000) New York: Simon & Schuster Robert Putnam argues that the time has come "to reweave the fabric of our communities."

Evidence shows, Putnam says, that fewer and fewer

contemporary Americans are unionizing, voting, rallying around shared causes, participating in religious services, inviting each other over, or doing much of anything collectively. In fact, when we do occasionally gather-for twelve-step support encounters and the like-it's most...