Title

Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community

Description

Putnam's work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of social capital is felt in critical ways: Communities with less social capital have lower educational performance and more teen pregnancy, child suicide, low birth weight, and prenatal mortality. Social capital is also a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, as it is of our health: In quantitative terms, if you both smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to which is the riskier behavior.--BOOK JACKET.

Identifier

877822

684832836

Creator

Putnam, Robert D

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2000

Program air date: December 24, 2000

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: "Putnam's agenda [p.]402; Why is Alexis de Tocqueville the patron saint of social capitalists? Putnam's agenda p. 402; Machers and Schmoozers; John Dewey: doing with and doing for; what impact did 60's have on us? When was social capital the highest? - Crime - up in 60's; fewer lawyers per capita in 1970 than 1900; p. 146: "get it in writing" started in 70's. DDB Needham Life Style Surveys begun in 1975; greeting cards down by 15 to 20%; What about the internet.- Social Capital; wrote book in NH. TV has capacity to create a single national water cooler culture has shrunk (?); our challenge now - to reinvent the 21st century equivalent of the Boy Scouts - Progressives p. 401; Social Capital map p. 293. Lowest social capital in U.S. where slavery existed. Mass media - ch.13, [p.]216: average age for nightly news 57; 6th graders with sets in bedroom 6% in '70 / 77% in '99; we watch alone; Americans - 7% watch for info / 41% for entertainment. Civic generations: Boomers, X'ers. Church going is falling, home entertaining down, movie going up, less time in conversation over meals but do use the phone more; people born between 1910-1940: constitute "a long civic generation"; half of all charitable giving is religious. Is government the problem or the solution to social capital? Bowling - more Americans are bowling than ever; league bowling is down; 91 million people bowled in 1996; Race; Religion - church attendance less major ? areas". Notes on back endpapers: "Frost Pond, N.H."; List of charitable organizations: "Aspen Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Lilly Endowment, Trilateral Commission, Pew Charitable Trusts, Norman Foundation; 1997: Sagams Seminar, Carnegie, Catherine T. MacArthur F., Charles Stewart Mott, Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, Sandra Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers"; "Daughter, Laura - ten years, editor". Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book.

Subject

"Social change--United States--History--20th century."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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