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Comentado en Singapur el 3 de noviembre de 2024
Bought this after reading about it on New York Times. I get why this is an important book. But it is full of so many charts and graphs and seems to be making the same point again and again. It is really more of an academic study than a text to read casually. I felt the first chapter was enough for me to get the idea and put the book down. I'm not someone who dislikes reading. I do read plenty, including nonfiction. But something about this book just puts me to sleep.
Ben Ellis
Comentado en Australia el 3 de septiembre de 2024
I purchased a ‘new’ hardcover copy of Bowling Alone. While the item arrived in plastic wrap, it is clearly not in ‘new’ condition—stains on front cover, discolouration of the pages throughout, creasing and damage around the edges. I can appreciate it may be an old print, and wouldn’t take issue had it been mentioned in the item description and priced accordingly.
Rodolfo Lessa
Comentado en Brasil el 22 de marzo de 2022
A great and robust book from one of the best social scientists alive.Sometimes the writing becomes a little repetitive, but the graphs and main findings are really clear and straightforward. I recommend this book to everyone interested about the decline of the western world, but especially of the USA. It shed light on the path to continuous disengagement and authoritarism that we're heading if something unexpected doesn't change.
Edward B. Crutchley
Comentado en el Reino Unido el 8 de junio de 2016
Interestingly, this engaging book was published in 2000. This was just before the dawn of social media; the final arrival of Marshall McLuhan’s global village predicted fifty years ago, the great electronic front porch (closely monitored by the State). Aided by plenty of graphs derived from various studies made over the years, the author illustrates the fall of ‘social capital’ since its 1940-1945 birth cohort peak. He observes declining participation in every aspect of bridging or bonding civic life, from religious organisations to politics, charities and charitable contributions (as a percentage of earnings), making long distance phone calls or writing letters, obeying stops signs, being active in trade unions and workplace groups, interest or social groups, and so on. He attributes much of the cause to a combination of the influences of generational differences (25%), TV (25%), metropolitan sprawl that gave rise to the need for extensive commuting and less focus on the home environment (10%), and the increasing pressures of work (10%). He notes that among the younger generations born after WW2 there has been a decline in trust (and a corresponding increase in the legal professions). People have cocooned, disenfranchised themselves, become socially isolated, opted out, turned their backs on conformity and joining in, become anchored at home, more fickle, giving money rather than personally participating. Charitable organisations have only kept afloat through intensive direct mailing. There has occurred a balkanisation of interests. The graphs are fascinating. Some of the most interesting of them convincingly correlate lower social capital of different American States with violent crime, health problems and mortality, educational performance. The southern states (other than Florida) tend to fair worst; the old slavery states tend to be less tolerant and civil. TV appears to be a great evil. Unforgettable, if it is to be believed, is Figure 66 on page 233 from a study that correlates time spent watching television with giving the finger at other drivers on the road. But why the generational difference? The author ends the book on a positive note. He believes in a new Great Awakening such as the one which sparked off the great move towards social cohesiveness in the first place at the end of the 19th Century that peaked around 1950. Back then it was against a background of widening inequality, patronage, invasive immigration, uprooting and urbanisation. One sees some parallels. The advent of widespread part-time work may help to create the opportunity.
AT
Comentado en Francia el 6 de noviembre de 2013
This book was the base for a bookclub discussion. I never finished it, but this doesn't mean the book is bad.
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