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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
Robert D. Putnam
其他書名
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2001-08-01
主題
History / Social History
Political Science / Public Policy / General
History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN
0743219031
9780743219037
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cettawwJwxsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
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.