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Building on the work of KSG professor Robert D. Putnam, the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, the largest of its kind to date, gathered data from 40 communities across the country to assess citizens' community involvement and their perceptions of community life...
...survey also examined the effect of religion on civic involvement. According to the survey data, religious activity is an indicator of higher levels of civic participation, and has "some matchless strengths as sources of civic engagement," Putnam said in a statement...
...Americans lacking access to financial and human capital also lack access to social connections," Putnam said. "This lack of connections exacerbates the burden for Americans struggling to advance economically...
...civic engagement over time, the survey is useful to analyze differences in civic engagement across the country. The survey maps the relative strengths and areas for improvement in communities' civic behavior and sets a baseline against which future progress can be assessed in another survey several years hence," Putnam said. "It represents an extraordinary, enormous trove of data for policymakers, researchers and community builders...
...what a different story The Bonesetter's Daughter (Putnam; 353 pages; $25.95), Tan's eagerly awaited fourth novel, might have told. For although she conceived of this work as fiction, not a memoir or an autobiography, Tan, 48, began its creation in direct response to her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis in 1995. Realizing that Daisy Tan's memory was fading, her daughter planned a fictional meditation on "the things we remember and the things that should be remembered." The work sputtered on and off for four years until her mother's death late in 1999, after which Tan finished...