that was the book in 2011 by robert putnam. he used the collapse of bowling leagues for the connection to people doing things alone. more people watching tv, all these things, staying at home instead of going to the diner. it was his image of a declining social capital. i say people are not connected as much. membership in organizations has been falling since 1965 and has .ontinued since 2000 that is at the heart. it is not falling everywhere. if you live in salt lake city, you probably belong to to many things. there are too many people demanding your time. so much of middle-class america, this is the case. it is true for everybody. we are not as connected as we used to be. what i'm trying to argue is this is not just something that life is a little less fun because you don't belong to a bowling league. there are bad outcomes involving drugs, suicide, out of wedlock pregnancy, high school dropouts that flow from us not belonging to think. host: andrew is next. new york. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. thank

. >> bowling alone was the book in 2000 by robert putnam and he used bowling leagues, the collapse of bowling leagues as a metaphor of the erosion of people doing things together. people were bowling but by themselves, more people watching tv and all of these things staying in their air-conditioned houses with their own coffee makers instead of going to the diner. it was his image -- he described it as a decline in social capital. i say people aren't connected as much. they don't belong to as many things. membership in organizations has been falling sort of since 1965 and it's continued more or less since 2000 when robert putnam wrote bowling alone. and that is at the heart here. it's not falling everywhere. if you live in salt lake chase, chevy chase, you probably belong to too many things. so much of middle class america, this is the case. it's true for everybody that we're not as connected but it's much worse in the middle class and the working class. what i'm trying to argument throughout that chapter is this isn't something that life is a little less fun because you don't belong

that was the book in 2011 by robert putnam. he used the collapse of bowling leagues for the connection to people doing things alone. more people watching tv, all these things, staying at home instead of going to the diner. it was his image of a declining social capital. i say people are not connected as much. membership in organizations has been falling since 1965 and has .ontinued since 2000 that is at the heart. it is not falling everywhere. if you live in salt lake city, you probably belong to to many things. there are too many people demanding your time. so much of middle-class america, this is the case. it is true for everybody. we are not as connected as we used to be. what i'm trying to argue is this is not just something that life is a little less fun because you don't belong to a bowling league. there are bad outcomes involving drugs, suicide, out of wedlock pregnancy, high school dropouts that flow from us not belonging to think. host: andrew is next. new york. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. thank