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bowling alone thesis en · PROPN

Etymology

After Bowling Alone, a 1995 essay and 2000 book by Robert D. Putnam, who gave the example of young Americans bowling on their own rather than in teams.

Meanings

  1. The posited decline of social capital in the United States since 1950.

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