Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community
"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."--Jacket
History
541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780684832838, 9780743203043, 0684832836, 0743203046
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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