Social Scientist Robert Putnam is known for his book Bowling Alone, which looks at both research and suggestions about the decline of communal civic behavior. His latest research is on a similar but more incendiary topic, namely the idea that diversity in a community leads to the same sorts of communal disconnectedness.
This research will be a focal point of conversations, because Putnam is a popular author and because he is a liberal thinker who is not in sympathy with what he found in his research.
Visit Harvard's press release and the links within it to Putnam's June 2007 article as well as press reactions.
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