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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community |
Robert Putnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone |
2000-01-01 |
cultural-dynamics |
book |
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2026-03-08 |
| social capital erodes when associational life declines because trust generalized reciprocity and civic norms are produced by repeated face-to-face interaction in voluntary organizations not by individual virtue |
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| social-capital |
| civic-engagement |
| trust |
| community |
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Bowling Alone
Comprehensive empirical account of declining American civic engagement since the 1960s. Documents the erosion of social capital — generalized trust, reciprocity norms, and civic skills — as voluntary associations decline. Identifies four causal factors: generational replacement, television, suburban sprawl, and time pressure.