Bowling Alone

(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). In groundbreaking research based on massive data, Putnam shows that we are becoming increasingly inaccessible to our democratic structures, family, friends, neighbors, and ours

Putnam warned that our social capital stock - the structure of our relationship - fell sharply, pooring our lives and local communities

Putnam took advantage of the evidence from about 500,000 interviews in the previous quarter, we signed fewer petitions, we are not organized, do not know neighbors, frequently meet friends, or frequently Interact with family. We will also boring alone. More Americans are bowling than ever, but they are not boring in the league. Putnam showed how changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's role, and other factors contributed to this reduction.

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In the later book "Bowling Alone" (2000), Putnam followed the change in the American community group and social capital in recent years - mainly declined. Bowling Alone describes a comprehensive overview of the recent trends of various social life indicators in modern America. This book provides a list of benefits claimed by expanded social capital and presents a wide range of remedies to treat Putnam's current social discomfort. Advantages of claims are related below.

In 1995, Robert Putnam wrote a famous article entitled "Solo Bowling" to study the decline of social capital in the American community. Social capital is the value embedded in the network and is usually represented by a powerful community organization such as church, labor union, brotherhood association, community group, PTA. Putnam used the bowling league as an example. He discovered that there are more bowling balls in the US than ever, but discovered that the classic bowling league composed of locals is almost the past. People are still eating, but instead of joining a community group, they occasionally meet with some close friends. Declining social capital is closely related to other social negative trends, such as an increase in poor children raised by a single parent family.