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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
- The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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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 in this brilliant volume, 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.
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It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.
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- De Brian en 08-17-03
De: David Brooks
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Pin Action
- Small-Time Gangsters, High-Stakes Gambling, and the Teenage Hustler
- De: Gianmarc Manzione
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
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Most of us think of bowling as a "sport" in quotation marks, and bowling alleys are places with disco balls, matching shirts, and funny shoes. But in the 1960s, New York City was the center of "action bowling", a form of high-stakes gambling in which bowlers - often teenagers - faced off for thousands of dollars every night. When money like that is changing hands, you can bet the pressure is on (and the balls are rigged), and losses come with dire consequences.
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- De joseph azze en 03-16-19
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The Great Good Place
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
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Henry James was born 15th April 1843, in New York City. A prolific author he was able to easily move across genres to create vivid and totally real worlds and situations and to offer sophisticated observations of human relations as well as realistic social criticism. The Great Good Place is a formidable short story with a sharp view of a writer who really needs to find peace but unexpectedly finds himself in paradise. Or does he?
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone
- De: Macat Int
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Social capital - the relationships between people that allow communities to function well - has long been recognized as the grease that oils the wheels of society. It facilitates trust, creates bonds among neighbors, and even helps boost employment. In his 2000 book, Bowling Alone, American sociologist Robert Putnam argues that Americans have become disconnected from one another and from the institutions of their common life and investigates the consequences of this change.
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- De Cat Bennet en 03-31-17
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The Connected Community
- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
- De: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
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We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away? Cormac Russell and John McKnight offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures.
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Wonderful Book
- De Chad Clippingdale en 12-20-23
De: Cormac Russell, y otros
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By the People
- Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
- De: Charles Murray
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
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American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government—not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows better. When we object, that government can and does tell us, “Try to fight this, and we’ll ruin you.”
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Finally, some possible solutions
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-16
De: Charles Murray
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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
- De: Neil M. Gorsuch
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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia - as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization - ever published. In clear terms accessible to the general listener, Neil Gorsuch thoroughly assesses the strengths and weaknesses of leading contemporary ethical arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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- Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
- De: Matthew D. Lieberman
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In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world-other people and our relation to them.
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"Bowling Alone" For Your Brain...
- De Douglas en 12-08-13
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One Billion Americans
- The Case for Thinking Bigger
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What would actually make America great: more people. From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yet logical argument that if we aren’t moving forward, we’re losing. Vox founder Yglesias invites us to think bigger, while taking the problems of decline seriously. What really contributes to national prosperity should not be controversial: supporting parents and children, welcoming immigrants and their contributions, and exploring creative policies that support growth.
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Novelty and Vision
- De Andrew en 09-16-20
De: Matthew Yglesias
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Of Boys and Men
- Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
- De: Richard V. Reeves
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The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.
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Regretful of My Knee-jerk Reaction To This Title 😔
- De Hazel Winters en 10-13-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
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- tiruoygat24
- 06-08-19
New edition!
This is such widely sourced material, I highly encourage the completion of an updated edition that would include the impact the development of digital social media has had on society, as well as legislation that increases the importance of capital in our political system, as opposed to minimizing that importance as the author argues for in this great work.
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- Starkad
- 02-06-24
I wonder what he would think about TikTok
In all seriousness, this is an excellent book. For others requesting a more updated version I have one question for you: what do you expect the findings to be? Obviously, things have gotten exponentially worse.
As a Gen Z who grew up in the rural southeast, non-religious civic clubs are more or less dead. What makes it worse is that Evangelical churches don’t do much to focus on life here on earth (and in many ways resign themselves from community involvement) because of the belief that the otherworldly afterlife is more important.
Some readers might cite Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique for explanations of why social cohesion has rapidly declined since 1965, but I believe there is a heavy technological influence that started first with TV, and was amplified through the introduction of the smartphone. Family time, marriage rates, and even participation in dating have all taken a serious hit in recent decades. Although this book may seem pessimistic to some, I think readers can gain some insights into how a positive and engaged community could be created.
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- JurisDoctorem
- 10-21-23
Thank you
Thank you for explaining the time line of America’s social history. I learned so much.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-10-23
Make note of copyright date
Full disclosure, I didn't finish the title.
Hopefully everyone else is smarter than I am and made note of the copyright date, as opposed to the publication date of the audiobook. While the content is revised and updated since its initial publication, even the revisions are 20 years old at this point. Some of the information and analysis is timeless, but much of it is too far out of date to be as meaningful as I'd wanted. We've seen the Great Recession and the rise and transformation of the Tea Party since this was updated, social and political life is simply not the same as it was.
That being said, I enjoyed the first chapter and found that the author made a reasonably successful attempt to be thorough and objective in his collection and presentation of data. I would love to read this book updated for the 20s.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-11-18
Enlightening, but Dry
Expert analysis of the reduction of social capital, but very dry. Still a classic work.
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- J to the C
- 02-25-24
Important Work / Audio Challenge
A well-researched work that is very important in this area of research. Audio gripe: the pairing of this narrator with the mic that was used yields a production that is a tough listen in the car… too lower-mid-rangy which fails to stand out above typical car motion drone. This needs to be re-recorded at some point.
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- Matt Carter
- 10-09-21
An excellent and insightful read
Valuable research into community through a lens of history, tradition, technology, and war. Definitely worth the read.
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- Joseph R
- 03-10-18
A thoroughly informative book.
An amazing work by Robert Putnam, it's a must-read for anyone concerned about America !
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- Rune J�rgensen
- 09-25-19
Great insights!
You should however be used to reading scientific literature before starting on this book.
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- Søren Poulsen
- 12-04-18
Amazing mapping of social capital in the US
This study exhibit an amazing amount of highly trustworthy scientific research into the nature and extend of social capital for the 20th century in the USA.
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