罗伯特·D. 帕特南(Robert D. Putnam),当代西方著名政治学家,现任哈佛大学国际事务研究中心主任,肯尼迪政府学院公共政策马尔林讲座教授。他的主要研究领域是政治学、国际政治和公共政策,发表的著作包括《手拉手:西方七国峰会》、《独自打保龄:美国社会资本的衰减 》、《让民主运转起来》等。
Amazon.com Review
Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David, his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that civil society was breaking down as Americans became more disconnected from their families, neighbors, communities, and the republic itself. The organizations that gave life to democracy were fraying. Bowling became his driving metaphor. Years ago, he wrote, thousands of people belonged to bowling leagues. Today, however, they're more likely to bowl alone:
Television, two-career families, suburban sprawl, generational changes in values--these and other changes in American society have meant that fewer and fewer of us find that the League of Women Voters, or the United Way, or the Shriners, or the monthly bridge club, or even a Sunday picnic with friends fits the way we have come to live. Our growing social-capital deficit threatens educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection, democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health and happiness.
The conclusions reached in the book Bowling Alone rest on a mountain of data gathered by Putnam and a team of researchers since his original essay appeared. Its breadth of information is astounding--yes, he really has statistics showing people are less likely to take Sunday picnics nowadays. Dozens of charts and graphs track everything from trends in PTA participation to the number of times Americans say they give "the finger" to other drivers each year. If nothing else, Bowling Alone is a fascinating collection of factoids. Yet it does seem to provide an explanation for why "we tell pollsters that we wish we lived in a more civil, more trustworthy, more collectively caring community." What's more, writes Putnam, "Americans are right that the bonds of our communities have withered, and we are right to fear that this transformation has very real costs." Putnam takes a stab at suggesting how things might change, but the book's real strength is in its diagnosis rather than its proposed solutions. Bowling Alone won't make Putnam any less controversial, but it may come to be known as a path-breaking work of scholarship, one whose influence has a long reach into the 21st century. --John J. Miller --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
"If you don't go to somebody's funeral, they won't come to yours," Yogi Berra once said, neatly articulating the value of social networks. In this alarming and important study, Putnam, a professor of sociology at Harvard, charts the grievous deterioration over the past two generations of the organized ways in which people relate to one another and partake in civil life in the U.S. For example, in 1960, 62.8% of Americans of voting age participated in the presidential election, whereas by 1996, the percentage had slipped to 48.9%. While most Americans still claim a serious "religious commitment," church attendance is down roughly 25%-50% from the 1950s, and the number of Americans who attended public meetings of any kind dropped 40% between 1973 and 1994. Even the once stable norm of community life has shifted: one in five Americans moves once a year, while two in five expect to move in five years. Putnam claims that this has created a U.S. population that is increasingly isolated and less empathetic toward its fellow citizens, that is often angrier and less willing to unite in communities or as a nation. Marshaling a plentiful array of facts, figures, charts and survey results, Putnam delivers his message with verve and clarity. He concludes his analysis with a concise set of potential solutions, such as educational programs, work-based initiatives and funded community-service programs, offering a ray of hope in what he perceives to be a dire situation. Agent, Rafe Sagalyn. 3-city tour; 20-city radio satellite tour. (June)
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在同一个小区里连续居住了将近九年后,我和一些邻居终于开始渐渐地相互熟识起来——而这还是拜近年来的两件事所赐:首先是附近工地夜间施工扰民引发的业主听证会;其次是孩子的降生使我们开始有了一个很好的理由互相搭讪和询问。有几个邻居原先从来不和我们主动打招呼,现在看...
评分帕特南為社會資本列出的三個主要方面是規範、網絡,与信任。他在世紀轉折點看到的美國是一個社會資本日漸衰落的社會。在讀這本書的時候,我時不時地触碰到一些新鮮的活例,這讓閱讀過程中的思考略顯輕鬆。 一個在美國工作的朋友回國,一兩年前抱定辭職回國發展的念頭繼續動搖...
评分读《独自打保龄》有感 ——从“普遍互惠”角度浅谈中国社会资本问题 全书主要探讨社会资本对政治的影响、社会资本对政治的影响作用有多大、社会资本对政治的影响方式是怎样和面对社会资本对政治的影响我们该怎么做等问题,深入浅出、由表及里、细致入微并且通俗易懂,读完之后...
评分The definition of social capital There is not a unified definition of social capital. The term was first used by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk in 1895. Böhm-Bawerk is a member of Austrian School of economics. He used the term as the opposite of “private capi...
评分Possible rationales of the reduction in social capital upon which Americans used to found, educate, and enrich the fabric of their social lives. The reasons, according to Putnam, are derived from the movement of women into the labor force, increasing mobility, demographic transformations, and the technological transformation of leisure.
评分During 1980-1993, league bowling declined by 40% while the manner of individual bowlers rose by 10%. The number of people who trust the government has dropped. Poli.Sci. 305. Winter'09.
评分画大饼画的又圆又漂亮(所有曲线都能精确下滑),颇有一种看图说话、指点江山的豪迈气概。这本书让我理解到一本糟糕的社会学著作能多么以偏概全、排列简单数据进行贸然因果推断来糊弄人。真不知普特曼和TV是有多大仇,坚持认为经济压力、城乡流动、交通距离(住宅区隔)、大众传媒(电视)、和年代差异才是抹杀了社会参与的缘由,逻辑论证那么简单真的不会出错吗?未来发展趋势如何从纯跑数据得出?社群研究那么大的话题,没有定性基础怎么观察?社会资本那么重要的话题,被你在第四部分简化成它有多么多么好,太不厚道(倒是虚拟社会资本很有意思)。第五部分历史水平不敢恭维,终章时甚至开始了“Let us..by 2010..”的呼吁,简直把我吓坏了。只画一块大饼自圆其说,根本无法让人满意。数据很惊人,Appendix值得围观 M
评分was expecting a more rigorous analysis, but only found it disappointing and disturbing. The analysis is very crude and some conclusions Putnam drew are even wrong by simply looking into the figures. Moreover, many indicators that should have been separated are put together, which lead to somewhat superficial argument...
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