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fun4us2b · M
It's real...
There's a book about it here in the US - I'm sure the internet has some part in this, maybe in some ways helped since it really started in the 50s maybe due to multigenerational families going out of style? I haven't read it so I'm not sure....
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.
There's a book about it here in the US - I'm sure the internet has some part in this, maybe in some ways helped since it really started in the 50s maybe due to multigenerational families going out of style? I haven't read it so I'm not sure....
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.
