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Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), 15
veterans’ organizations, 52, 59
Victory Garden program, 269–70
video and computer games, 104–5, 223
videocassette recorders (VCRs), 217, 223, 223, 236
video watching, 195–96, 216, 245
Vietnam War, 47, 146, 152, 164, 187, 192, 257
social inequality in, 271
veterans of, 15, 272
violence, 289, 296, 305, 370
see also crime
volleyball, 109, 237
volunteering, 27, 35, 48, 93, 95, 116–20, 121, 122, 127–33, 138, 170, 186, 206, 213, 218, 231–34, 231, 249, 279, 290, 296, 312, 340, 378
encouraging of, 265, 267–72, 405, 406–7
generational patterns to, 129–33, 130, 131, 180, 248, 250–54, 259, 265, 266, 267–72
health and happiness and, 329, 331, 333
physically demanding forms of, 130–31
religiosity and, 66–68, 77–78, 79, 117, 119, 120, 128
time and financial constraints and, 189, 191, 193–94, 200–201
in wartime, 267–72
see also altruism; philanthropy
voting, 66, 67, 170, 173, 323, 339, 372
rates of, 17, 31–33, 34–35, 37, 40, 41, 46, 113, 161, 164, 183, 185, 186, 218, 220, 247, 251–54, 255, 256, 258, 261, 265, 266, 279, 283, 291, 292, 296, 301, 344, 345, 399, 404
registration requirements and, 32, 375
Voting Rights Act, 33
wages, see income
Wald, Kenneth, 67
walking, 109, 110–11
Wallace, George, 161
Wall Street mergers, 369
Wal-Mart, 283, 376
war, 36, 403
civic virtue in, 267–76, 359, 402
see alsospecific wars
War Bonds, 268, 269
ward government, 336–37
war industries, 271
Warner, Lloyd, 270–71
Warner, Stephen, 74
Washington, D.C., 16, 152, 316, 412
interest groups and advocacy organizations of, 49–51, 52, 337, 343–44
water, drinking, 374, 396, 398
Watergate, 187, 257
WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union), 389–90, 397
wealth, 16, 162, 185, 193–94, 203, 247, 257, 267, 271, 299, 306, 308, 318, 319–25, 340, 348, 372
displays of, 329
distribution of, 358–60, 360, 368, 370, 381, 391, 413
philanthropy and, 117, 122–23, 124, 126, 131
weddings, virtual, 170
welfare state, 27, 187, 267, 281–82, 316, 336, 363
Wellman, Barry, 24–25, 171, 179
Westbrook, Robert, 337
West Virginia, 310, 398
White, William Allen, 376, 379
White Citizens’ councils, 161
white flight, 209, 280, 312
see also segregation, racial and class; suburbs, suburbanization
whites, 185, 186, 309, 361, 375
religious participation among, 76– 77
social networks of, 322
social trust expressed by, 138
voting rights of, 33
see also race
Whitman, Walt, 24
Whittlesey, Roger, 16
Whyte, William, 209
widowhood, 249, 277
Willard, Frances, 389, 390
Williams, Jody, 173
Williams, Tannis MacBeth, 236
Williamson, Jeffrey, 370
Williamson, Oliver, 288
Wilson, William Julius, 312–13, 321
Wilson, Woodrow, 376, 381
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson), 24
Winship, Christopher, 317–18
Wisconsin, 292, 371
Wisconsin, University of, 397
Wolfe, Alan, 85–86, 91, 352
Wolfe, Tom, 20
women, 185, 316, 329, 409
busyness of, 189, 194–203
club and group memberships of, 54, 55, 149, 150, 194–203, 383, 388, 389–90, 395
employment preferences of, 196–201, 197, 198, 200
enfranchisement of, 17, 149, 372, 390, 398
informal social connections of, 94–95, 107, 108, 110, 112, 195, 200
on Internet, 173
in workplace, 81, 89, 94–95, 185, 187, 188, 190, 194–203, 267, 312, 352, 390, 396, 397, 403, 406
see also gender
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 389–90, 397
women’s movement, 27, 148, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 194, 396, 403
Woolworth’s, 376
workers, 185
free time of, 190–92
full- vs. part-time, 189, 192, 196–201, 213, 406, 407
organization of, 374–75, 396–97; see also unions
skilled vs. unskilled, 369
workmen’s compensation, 398
workout equipment, 109
workplace, 398, 404, 406–7
civic recruitment in, 89–90, 339, 406–7
drug testing in, 258
residences segregated from, 208, 211–15
social connectedness in, 85–88, 89–92, 194–96, 214, 274, 275, 332, 343, 406–7
surveillance in, 91–92, 407
see also employment
work-related organizations, 27, 49, 64, 80–92
membership in, 80–85, 81, 84, 278
see also professional societies; unions
World Almanac, 48
World Vision, 118
World War I, 80, 370, 400
civic activity in, 267–68
World War II, 18, 54, 55, 56, 80, 112, 123, 248, 254
celebrities and, 271
community in, 272–76, 359
patriotism and solidarity in, 267–72, 284
World War II generation, 16–17, 25, 26, 33, 47, 54–56, 103, 110, 124, 129, 132, 133, 251–54, 261, 284, 287, 357, 404
community spirit of, 272–75
education of, 254–55
happiness in, 262, 263, 334
influence of, 256–57
media consumption by, 219–21, 225, 250–54
particular experience of, 254–56, 259, 266–76
patriotism of, 267–72
religious participation by, 71–73, 251
workplace ties by, 80, 82, 83, 251
see also generational change
World Wide Web, 34
Wuthnow, Robert, 77, 78, 148–49, 150, 151–52, 161
www.ifnotnow.com, 173–74
Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center of, 209
Yaale Ve’Yavo, 170
Yahoo, 170
Yankelovich Monitor survey, 226
Yankelovich Partners poll, 100, 126, 161, 274
Yonish, Steven, 422
Yosemite National Park, 395
young people, 54, 247–48
energy levels of, 249
informal social connections of, 94, 95, 107–8, 109–10, 111, 112, 168, 321
mentoring of, 131, 312, 393, 405
reciprocity and trust expressed by, 142, 144
social mobility of, 329
volunteering by, 119, 121–22, 129, 131, 133, 180, 269–70, 405
work demands of, 190, 329
in World War II, 269–70; see also World War II generation
see also Generation X
youth groups, 22, 49, 54, 55, 59, 67, 122, 278, 279, 339, 389, 393
Ypsilanti, Mich., 28, 271
Zald, Mayer, 159
zoning policies, 211
* For simplicity’s sake I use the term church here to refer to all religious institutions of whatever faith, including mosques, temples, and synagogues.
* Experimental social psychologists have uncovered striking evidence that even the most casual social interaction can have a powerful effect on reciprocity. When a confederate “stranger” speaks briefly in the hallway to an unwitting subject, the subject is quicker to provide help when she subsequently “overhears” the confederate havi
ng an apparent seizure than if there had been no previous contact. See Bibb Latané and John M. Darley, The Unresponsive Bystander: Why Doesn’t He Help? (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970), 107–109.
* While marriage increases the frequency with which women send greeting cards, it cuts in half the frequency with which men do so, regardless of whether their wives work or not. This sociological “finding” will hardly be news to most couples.
*Virtually all small towns in New Hampshire, where I am writing this book, supported town bands in that era; few do now.
* Neither term is used with great precision, but roughly speaking, “Gilded Age” refers to the period 1870—1900 and “Progressive Era” to 1900—1915. Like any historical demarcation, this division is not strict, since developments associated with the Progressive movement had clear antecedents during the earlier period, and developments associated with the Gilded Age persisted into the later period.