Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | book by Putnam | Britannica (original) (raw)

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communitarianism

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  In communitarianism: The common good versus individual rights
  …with contemporary social-scientific data in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), by the American political scientist Robert Putnam.
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political science and culture analysis

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  In political science: Political culture
  In Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), Putnam claimed that the American tendency to form citizen groups, a characteristic that Tocqueville praised, was weakening. Americans were less often joining groups and participating in politics, Putnam argued, leading to a loss of “social…
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