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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Author Robert Putnam

Format Paperback

Publisher Touchstone Books by Simon & Schuster

Category Social Issues

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"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.

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Robert Putnam

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Release Date: 2001-07-31
Publisher: Touchstone Books by Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780743203043

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