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

11 jxmorris12 3 6/11/2025, 1:54:08 PM montgomeryhistoricalsociety.org ↗

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RugnirViking · 8h 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
bell-cot · 1d ago
Last updated in (2010), based on the .pdf metadata.

The original seems to be (1995) -

https://web.archive.org/web/20100201190211/http://xroads.vir...

In any case, America has not improved since then.

PaulHoule · 1d ago
See this movie https://www.joinordiefilm.com/ for a follow-up.