| " Bowling Alone is a "fascinating analysis of decades of social science and market research...that measures virtually every aspect of American life, from how many picnics and softball games we participate in each year to the number of public meetings we attend and petitions we sign. It is a minutely documented catalog of social disengagement of virtually every kind: politcal apathy, retreat from church attendance, eroding union membership, the decline of bridge clubs and dinner parties, volunteering and blood donation. an antitank gun of an argument, relentlessly researched and heavily armored against academic counterassault." |
| IMost of the people who, like I, have spent a large part of their life volunteering in organizations have enevitably run into the following question: Why are more people not volunteering for my/any organization that does good solid work for people? They may have come across an answer like the following: Not everyone is into volunteering, and it has always been a small group of people that have engaged in helping and trying to change the world. Bowling Alone is an rebuttle of the latter and an answer to the former, the best answer I've ever come across. |
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