Talk:Bowling Alone

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[edit] unsourced and original research

I've put an explicit citation of the book in the External Links section, which I've renamed References. I've also flagged about three individual claims in the Controversies section as needing citations:

• if the incident at Waterloo was "notable," then presumably it's been reported somewhere.
• if "others have claimed" that Putnam ignored previous studies, have they done so in print?
• if Putnam has "come in for criticism" re: liberty, have those criticisms been published?

Is there anything else here that warrants the "unsourced" and "original research" flags? The "(par. 13)"-style references are to paragraphs of the article that's linked to in the References section. I'm not sure how they could be improved.

I've removed the Waterloo incident, as it apparently didn't happen. Shimgray | talk | 17:33, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bias against the 1950s

This article has an obvious bias, assuming that life in the 1950s must have been terrible because it was before the Civil Rights Movements had passed. It mentions things such as racism, without stating how they have any relevance to the topic. Now that it is mentioned though, African Americans actually became significantly less happy, gradually less and less happy as the Civil Rights era progressed through the 50s and 60s (source: Conditions of Happiness by Ruut Veenhoven) Peoplesunionpro 00:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)