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Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital [pdf] (1995)

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• bell-cot 1y ago
  Last updated in (2010), based on the .pdf metadata. The original seems to be (1995) - https://web.archive.org/web/20100201190211/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100201190211/http://xroads.vir... In any case, America has not improved since then.
  • PaulHoule 1y ago
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• RugnirViking 1y ago
  Interesting to see the conclusion; they mention that one of the few social institutions doing well are megachurches, not only seeing a growth in members, but a growth in committed (paying significant amounts) members. They attribute this to their having established thousands of small sub-groups, mountain bikers for god groups, wednesday squash games for god, etc, allowing people to spend focused time with relatively few people