Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
There's a book titled "Bowling Alone". It documents a theory of a perceived loss of "social capital" within the United States in the last 4 decades.
It uses a mind numbing amount of statistical data of social clubs, teams, fraternity organizations, church membership, union membership and other things to show the changes in tastes and lifestyles.
I have an undergrad degree in sociology, so I was used the reading "soc-speak" writing. I was unable to get anywhere close to even the middle of that book. Shame, because the subject interested me.