Bowling Alone

“I I think to me the internet is an accelerator of trends that were already pre-existing because if you look back I mean bowling alone, right, is the perfect example. Was that written 94? Early 90s. Yeah. And it was it and Robert Putnham took a look at all of these metrics. I really still recommend that people read that”

“people read a lot more and they also just talked a lot more. They would come together, people played cards, bowling alone is a perfect example, but socialization was massive and also intraasocialization in different neighborhoods.”

“I was reading this book called Bowling Alone and it's all about um in America uh up until roughly the 60s.”

“a week later he reads this book called bowling alone and I guess this book has big impact on him because he then ends up giving this to every Meetup employee and bowling alone was just basically a book about statistics”

“and I think Robert Putnam the sociologist who well before the pandemic worried about this as a trend in the United States most famous book bowling alone”

“as for instance Bob Putnam the sociologist argued in this book bowling alone it doesn't have to be religion”

“putting Putin is also the author of The Landmark book bowling alone which was published in 2000”

“in his book bowling alone Putnam found that Social Capital was relatively low in the U.S in the early 1900s and Rose fairly steadily through the 1960s”

“Who are some like heroes of yours from that realm, like Bowling Alone and Bob Putnam? I'm just curious, like what you've read or thought over the years.”

“Bob putam who wrote bowling alone about how as you know I guess Mike that Americans are spending time alone”

“Bob Putnam who wrote bowling alone and whose work I think you know of wait let me ask you do you know who I'm talking about putting them so Bob Putnam wrote bowling alone about how as you know I guess Mike that Americans are spending time alone that they used to spend with friends”

“it's like a version of the bowling alone Theory from the sociologist Robert Putnam sexing alone the bully alone book was about how bowling leagues were going down”

“well there's a robert putnam who's a sociologist over at harvard He wrote an entire book about the social fabric called bowling alone”

“he wrote an entire book about the social fabric called bowling alone he was kind of the the pioneer in the idea of social capital”

“There's a book a guy wrote about how there's no more bowling leagues. Um And can you look that up? It's like I'm trying to think of the title of it. But it's about how a lot of these have a lot of men's bowling leagues and men would get together and they would bowl. Uh Bowling Alone, The Collapse”

“there's a book book it's called bowling alone maybe yeah Robert putam”

“I remember reading the book uh bowling alone which talked a lot about a generation of adults who you know used to be a part of bowling leagues and these other things but you saw this Decline and people”

“I mean there's that famous book The the Robert Putnam won bowling alone or whatever we described it for now”

“There's this great Harvard researcher named Robert Putnam. He wrote a book called Bowling Alone. When he first wrote it wrote it in the late '80s, he he calculated that the average American has three friends.”

“For that latter story, I talked to Bob Putnham, Robert Putnham, the author of Bowling Alone.”

“between the 1960s and 1990s Robert putam wrote a famous book called bowling alone where he said look Americans are joining clubs less they're joining associations less they're bowling together less they are bowling alone”

“I mean you can go on Robert putnam's book bowling alone basically says yes it's television”

“the decline of organized religion the line of communities you know going back to sort of like Robert putnam's bowling alone like modernity is not well oriented towards Community”

“that Robert Putnam who wrote bowling alone talks about this it's just a complete degradation of community”

“The Robert Putnam book I think is much more specific and I wish people would talk in this language. We didn't hollow out the middle class. We hollowed out places.”

“there's a remarkable statistic quoted by uh Robert Putnham in his book Bowling Alone about how I think it's between the 60s and the '90s the average American gained hours of free time and they spent virtually all of it watching television.”

“another book that made a powerful impact on me is called our kids by Robert Putnam who wrote sociology wrote Bowling Alone”

“you know there's this famous book you probably heard about bowling alone that documented the sort of atrophy of voluntary associations”

“There was a guy, forgive me, I can't remember his name, Jesse, who wrote the book 'Bowling Alone' back in '95, around that time. He talked about how our society was getting more and more fragmented and isolated from each other, staying at home and watching TV too much, not going out to join the bowling league.”

“Yeah, absolutely, I remember there was a book written in the '90s by a guy named Putnam, the title was "Bowling Alone." And it sort of was a sociological book, just looking at the erosion of community in America, beginning with the bowling leagues.”

“I mean, we Robert Putnam was talking about this in the 1990s in his book Bowling Alone.”

“Professor Robert Putnam, of course, famously, you know, wrote um about this about 20 years ago now, I I guess. Um, so, um, bowling alone.”

“I mean you know he wrote I don't know how many years ago Putnam wrote the book Bowling Alone but I think we're Bowling Alone”

“there is a sociologist named Robert Putnam in at Harvard actually who wrote a book in the 80s called bowling alone in which he studied what he called our investment in Social Capital”

“Robert Putnam in his book bowling alone he's a social scientist he talks about how in the early 1900s America was in these really dark times you know really dark times you had polarized politics”

“when uh when Professor Putnham at Harvard produces a book writes a book called Bowling Alone.”

“in in bowling alone we used to be a society that had a nice middle layer of civic organizations”

“It is um it's hard to describe the feeling but it is a very rooted feeling and that loss of community in our country which has been tracked you know all the way going back to uh bowling alone which this seinal sociological study of the way that we're all sort of like coming apart and all of that accelerated”

“I remember reading the book Bowling Alone, which talked a lot about a generation of adults who used to be part of bowling leagues and other things, but we saw a decline in people—in this case, it was men—but in general people needing to find more connective tissue in their community and not having that sense of belonging.”

“There's this great Harvard researcher named Robert Putnam, who wrote a book called 'Bowling Alone'.”

“Let me then give the Bob Putnam answer; Bob Putnam, who wrote Bowling Alone about how, as you know, I guess Mike, that Americans are spending time alone that they used to spend with friends, and this is going to get all the way back to pubs and churches.”

“Bob Putnam, who wrote *Bowling Alone*, and whose work I think you know of—wait, let me ask, do you know who I'm talking about?”

“It's like a version of the Bowling Alone theory from the sociologist Robert Putnam—sexing alone.”

“That is a very interesting point, and I think Robert Putnam, the sociologist who well before the pandemic worried about this as a trend in the United States, most famously wrote the book Bowling Alone, which is exactly what you're not prescribing.”

“and the thought that comes to my mind is motivated by an essay of a sociologist named Robert Putnam that was written probably 20 some years ago entitled bowling alone and the thesis is relatively simple and that at that time Putnam was arguing that we don't have a healthy Civic life because we don't have what he called the”