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929 B
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type: source
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title: "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community"
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author: "Robert Putnam"
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url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
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date: 2000-01-01
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domain: cultural-dynamics
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format: book
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status: processed
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processed_by: clay
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processed_date: 2026-03-08
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claims_extracted:
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- "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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tags: [social-capital, civic-engagement, trust, community]
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# Bowling Alone
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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.
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