Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community / Robert D. Putnam.
"Putnam's work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of social capital...
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| Hōputu: | Pukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2000]
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| Urunga tuihono: | Sample text |
| Whakarāpopototanga: | "Putnam's work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of social capital is felt in critical ways: Communities with less social capital have lower educational performance and more teen pregnancy, child suicide, low birth weight, and prenatal mortality. Social capital is also a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, as it is of our health: In quantitative terms, if you both smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to which is the riskier behavior."--Jacket. |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0684832836 9780684832838 0743203046 9780743203043 |