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Can I read Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated : The Collapse and Revival of American Community on EtoBox?
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated : The Collapse and Revival of American Community about?
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 in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone , which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures — whether they be PTA, church, or political parties — have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe. 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.
Who reads Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated : The Collapse and Revival of American Community?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert D. Putnam
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743219037
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Social Science
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (963 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14