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| Author | Robert D. Putnam |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Social science |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 544 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7432-0304-3 |
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital". Putnam surveys the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all the forms of in-person social intercourse upon which Americans used to found, educate, and enrich the fabric of their social lives. He argues that this undermines the active civic engagement which a strong democracy requires from its citizens.
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