I just bought a book, “Bowling Alone” by Robert D. Putnam. It looks like to be a very good book.
You can buy the book too, and we can discuss it. (just shoot me an email at: [email]matt@spudart.org[/email] to let me know that you got the book). You can get the book at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203046/spudart-20
Here’s the editor’s notes:
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Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone.
Drawing on vast new data from the Roper Social and Political Trends and the DDB Needham Life Style — surveys that report in detail on Americans’ changing behavior over the past twenty-five years — Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether the PTA, church, recreation clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. Our shrinking access to the “social capital” that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing is a serious threat to our civic and personal health.
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