Robert D. Putnam famous quotes

03-28-2025

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Six #Dropping Out #Historic
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#People #Library #Information
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Suicide #School #Simple
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Hero #Effort #Roles
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Differences #Community #Democracy
Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
-- Robert D. Putnam

#People #Community #Tvs
What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Views #Engagement #Membership
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Communication #Engagement #Amplify
How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Parent #Wells
Look, we ought to do this for our kidsâ€¦ We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here â€” theyâ€™re all our kids â€” gets a good high school education.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Growing Up #School #Kids
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Book #Thinking #Discovery
Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Keys #People #Being Positive
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Sunshine #Community #Soul
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Communication #Community #May
Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.
-- Robert D. Putnam

#Watches

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