Title: Loose connections
Subtitle: Joining Together in Americas Fragmented Communities
First published: 1998
Description: Through a national survey of 1,500 Americans and more than 250 in-depth interviews with community leaders, volunteers, and ordinary citizens, Robert Wuthnow focuses his trained and caring eye on America's quest for community and spirituality in the contemporary world. "Loose connections" are Americans' new ways of joining together, from neighborhood task forces to support groups to meetings around single issues such as toxic waste or local schools.

Americans are joining more varied and informal networks, and Wuthnow helps us understand why this is happening and how the experience of working with others toward specific ends, even in loose connections, contributes to stronger ties within the community as a whole.
Subjects: Social participation, Social networks, Community organization, Social networks, united states
Places: United States
LC classification: HN59.2 .W87 1998