so of in middle school and high school early night school in the early 2000 and robert putnam bowling along with kind of a big deal we basically talked a lot about what was going on and how the internet and how the emergence of social media was going to change the way people felt and how they organized what do you think are the differences between the mentality of being a follower of a cult if leadership and being an active member in a political group or major religious group athletics of them or anything like that what are what are the differences considering they all have a similar leadership structure and groups that carol a file of them without really asking too many questions. yeah i think socially there's very little difference there's a difference in terms of what they believe and some group. like jonestown and they had very bizarre beliefs which did lead to the suicide which took place but many other groups went like that they offered help and the thing about i think the difference between people being in the republicans of the democrats which and many of the features of a cul

on wednesday, bowling alone author robert putnam has a book on the upswing:how america came together a century ago. i will speak with him and shannon romney garrett. thank you so much for tuning in tonight, thank you h.w. brands and thanks for your terrific questions. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 this holiday weekend. here are some programs to watch out for. hour "after words" interview program, and financial progress founder michael show one burger offers his thoughts on what he calls a pop elected that is apocalyptic and diamond was in. apocalyptic environmentalism. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, the latest nonfiction books and office. booktv on c-span2 created by america's cable television company. brought to you by these television companies who provide booktv to viewers as a public service. >> during the virtual event, juliet sure presented how the gig economy can be improved. >> one of the things to recognize about platforms as they are different than conventional businesses. they generally operate with open access for earners and consumers and anybody can join

reform movement from the top down and that did turn around that society and similarly in 1890 and robert putnamhas a book about this right now we have a cultural shift in 1890s and the social gospel movement and we had a civic renaissance the boys and girls clubs, boys and girls scouts the temperance movement and then we have the progressive movement. got culture bottom-up civic and top-down in that order. i do think it's possible that people just figured out a change in culture. a collective response around the moment and while 68 did produce amazing cultural shifts and feminism and all of these that came out of that time so we underestimate the extent to which coulter was him will look very different in years. look at the photos of ben. halfk of them have crew cuts ad half of them have long hair. you have cultural shifts when you live through these moments. >> i think the important thing is that these big shifts don't happen on their own. they are kind of manufactured and by this i don't mean that they are puppetmaster making things happen in changing society but you have to have conditions p