The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

List of Plates.Preface.Introduction.1. Distinguishing Religion and Spirituality: Findings from Kendal.2. Testing the Spiritual Revolution Claim in Kendal.3. Evidence for a Spiritual Revolution: Britain and USA.4. Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Secularization and Sacralization.5. Looking to the Future.Appendices.References.Index.

The spiritual revolution : why religion is giving way tospirituality

This meta-analysis of 51 studies examines the relationship between various kinds of parental involvement programs and the academic achievement of pre-kindergarten-12th-grade school children. Analyses determined the effect sizes for various parental involvement programs overall and subcategories of involvement. Results indicate a significant relationship between parental involvement programs overall and academic achievement, both for younger (preelementary and elementary school) and older (secondary school) students as well as for four types of parental involvement programs. Parental involvement programs, as a whole, were associated with higher academic achievement by .3 of a standard deviation unit. The significance of these results is discussed.

A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Different Types of Parental Involvement Programs for Urban Students

Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

Provides a review and analysis of literature on the conceptualisation and measurement of community strength and its outcomes and places this information in an analytical framework, identifying the commonalities and differences between various approaches to these issues.

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The identification and analysis of indicators of community strength and outcomes

Document Type Book Publisher Openbook Publishers Place of Publication Adelaide Faculty Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences School School of Communications and Arts / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications RAS ID 376 Comments Originally published as : Bellamy, J., NCLS Research, & National Church Life Survey (Australia). (2002). Why people don't go to church. Adelaide, S. Aust.: Openbook.

Philip Hughes

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The identification and analysis of indicators of community strength and outcomes

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