Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community

Section 1. Introduction

Thinking about social change in America

Section 2. Trends in civic engagement and social capital

Political participation

Civic participation

Religious participation

Connections in the workplace

Informal social connections

Altruism, volunteering, and philanthropy

Recipcrocity, honesty, and trust

Against the tide? : small groups, social movements, and the net

Section 3. Why?

Introduction

Pressures of time and money

Mobility and sprawl

Technology and mass media

From generation to generation

What killed civic engagement? : summing up

Section 4. So what?

Education and children's welfare

Safe and productive neighborhoods

Economic prosperity

Healh and happiness

Democracy

The dark side of social capital

Section 5. What is to be done?

Lessons of history : the gilded age and the progressive era

Toward an agenda for social capitalists

Has the internet reversed the decline of social capital?

Appendix 1 : measuring social change

Appendix 2 : sources for figures and tables

Appendix 3 : the rise and fall of civic and professional associations.