Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Do you talk to your neighbors? Do you trust our government or even the people around you? Have you involved yourself in any club and actually participated? If your answer was no to any of the previous questions, then you may be part of a statistic that expresses the decline of social capital. Social capital- the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively- has been decreasing for decades and in the article, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” by Robert D. Putnam he mentions the multiple ways Americans are decreasing social connectedness. The article’s main argument is that there needs to be
