The television generation accounts for 10-15 percent of the group participation decline
Evidence
Robert Putnam in his account of solitude in America, Bowling Alone, correlated the rise in TV viewing particularly with a massive drop, sometimes on the order of 50 percent, in community activities and civic participation. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 448 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
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Related
- Rising TV viewing correlates with a large decline in civic participation (similarity 0.92)
- Generational replacement drives twice the civic decline television does (similarity 0.86)
- Television privaatizes leisure even in group settings meant for sociability (similarity 0.83)
- Declining civic participation weakens officials’ trustworthiness, not just citizens’ trust (similarity 0.80)
- Generational succession explains roughly half of America’s civic decline since the 1970s (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Rising TV viewing correlates with a large decline in civic participation
#corroborates(0.95) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 448