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Thank you Bill, for the book tip. :-)
Margie
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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:33
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Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: AIS:
membership trends in context.
In a message dated 1/30/2005 8:06:48 AM Central
Standard Time, rpries@sbcglobal.net
writes:
I tried to find comparable figure for organizations as a group.
Without paying for the data I only came up with the following press releases
from “Bowling Alone’. In perspective it seems we have been doing very
well
Most of the points in Putnum's book are "thumb
nailed" in an interview at the following site. The copywrite is held by The
National Endowment for Democracy and John Hopkins University. It gets a bit
dry. It is worth reading by any who seek to understand what is happening in
society.
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social
Capital
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html
He
does not offer solutions. That is not his purpose. Nor does he see changes as
bad or good. He offers observation and profile of various societal segments
and the population as a whole, drawing many interesting
parallels.
Worth reading!
Smiles,
Bill Burleson
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