Robert D. Putnam

trust influence our life dramatically. In Robert D. Putnam's article, “Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital,” his begins with the argument that America's social capital is declining and the strength of American societies have weakened. To support his claim, he analyzes multiple reasons for the decline such as, the movement of women into the labor force, the mobility of individuals and the constant improvement of technology. According to Putnam, “social capital refers to features of social

The American Dream is becoming less attainable, and now resembles a myth that Americans can only hope to achieve. In Robert Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream Crisis,the author begins his book by analyzing his own hometown, then branches out to other locations in showing the growing disparity within communities and families. Putman portrays the growing class differences through statistics and narratives on actual people. In this essay I will evaluate Putnam’s book and apply it to the actions

In roughly 95 million middle-class American homes the notion of making last minute plans to share quality time with family and friends is challenging. With their priority for leisure time being focused on their children’s futures, making plans often involves two to four weeks advance notice. However, 200 million working-class and poverty level families accommodate those last minute plans with ease. Parenting styles in American families is what Annette Lareau addresses in Unequal Childhoods: Class

especially to the post-communists countries, that emphasize the importance of a strong civil engagement to the consolidation of democracy. However, as discussed by Robert D. Putnam the American social engagement/ social capital has drastically declined during the twentieth century. In ‘Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital’, Putnam discusses the link between democracy and civil society, emphasizes social connectedness and civic engagement. and over all the decline of civic engagement in America

Religion has been around as long as one can remember whether if it was monotheistic or polytheistic, religion has shaped governments and societies. In Robert D. Putnam’s book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, religious participation is thoroughly discussed and evaluated in the level of importance to Americans. Religious participation is seen to be important to social interactions, to change in the importance to Americans, to be affected by generations of Americans, and

Speaker Critique of “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” Like all great speeches given throughout history such as Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address or President Obama’s 2004 Introduction speech, Robert D. Putnam comes off as a passionate speaker regarding the topic of his “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” speech. Putnam’s speech was held in Meacham Auditorium in the Oklahoma Memorial Union at the University of Oklahoma. The speaking situation is as follows, the auditorium was a standard

and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs it shows the most enduring conflicts in America: race, class, drugs, community, imprisonment, education, family, friendship, and love. Robs’ story is about the collision of two fiercely insular worlds; the campus of Yale University and Newark, New Jersey and the difficulty of going from one to another and then back again. This book reflects a lot about the Book “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” written by Robert D. Putnam. Putnam mainly talks about

aspects in life since 1950 through 2000s, many up and down due to be economy changing over time. In the book, bowling alone by Robert d. Putnam believes that are society are influence by things that are leaders does and the effects on our people judgment. Putnam reveals that each chapter has clear message that highlights his points about people interest in American society. Putnam reveals his points about American society; social capital, religious participation, social network, and trust. In chapter

Putnam in his article named by “Bowling alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” see bowling as more people support it as a recreation form but less people belong in a organized league-becoming a metaphor for American middle class family. Thus, an increasing solipsistic and materialistic culture involving in the corporate work, obsessive consumption and undermined leisure (Putnam, 1995, p. 134). According to Putnam (1995), instead of paying attention more

Putnam argued that “the psychological properties are functional, not physical” (Putnam, 1967, p81), this is, according to Putnam, those functional properties must be “abstract properties” (Putnam, 1967, p.299) , nonetheless, Putnam claimed that depends upon physical and chemical properties of the brain, therefore, by applying the completeness of physics, those functional properties must be physical, and this physical view of functional states is defended by Lewis: “these causal roles which belong