Bowling alone :
the collapse and revival of American community /
Robert D. Putnam.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.
- Summary
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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.
- Physical Description
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541 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm.
- ISBN
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9780743203043
0743203046
9780684832838
0684832836
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