However, as Putnam notes in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community ( 2000 ), social capital has been falling in the United States.

Putnam found that over the past 25 years, attendance at club meetings has fallen 58 percent, family dinners are down 33 percent, and having friends visit has fallen 45 percent.

In the book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam observed that nearly every form of civic organization has undergone drops in membership exemplified by the fact that, while more people are bowling than in the 1950s, there are fewer bowling leagues.

In recent years Putnam has revised this argument.

Robert Putnam has used the concept in a much more positive light: though he was at first careful to argue that social capital was a neutral term, stating “ whether or not shared are praiseworthy is, of course, entirely another matter ”, his work on American society tends to frame social capital as a producer of " civic engagement " and also a broad societal measure of communal health.

Putnam ( 2000 ) mentions in his book Bowling Alone, " Child development is powerfully shaped by social capital " and continues " presence of social capital has been linked to various positive outcomes, particularly in education ".

Hilary Putnam has argued that any theory of mathematical realism would include quasi-empirical methods.

His birthplace, Putnam House, has been preserved as an historic structure.

The Putnam County ( Fla .) Historical Society has determined that Benjamin A. Putnam is the grandson of Israel Putnam, for whom other counties and places in the United States are named.

" Earhart's stepson George Palmer Putnam Jr. has been quoted as saying he believes " the plane just ran out of gas.

The evidence remains circumstantial, but Earhart's surviving stepson, George Putnam Jr., has expressed support for TIGHAR's research.

By this happy incident general Putnam, by continuing his march, escaped ... It has since become almost a common saying among our officers, that Mrs. Murray saved this part of the American army.

Putnam has a common boundaries with Thompson on the north ( approx.

* Putnam Science Academy has entered and won the Connecticut Science Olympiad for four years in a row ( 2004 – 2005, 2005 – 2006, 2006 – 2007, and 2007 – 2008 ).

The newspaper, the Putnam County News and Recorder, has a circulation of approximately 4, 000.

The distinguished Latinist Michael C. J. Putnam has recently published the first translation of all of Sannazaro's Latin poetry.

The Twin Earth thought experiment was a thought experiment presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his 1973 paper " Meaning and Reference " and subsequent 1975 paper " The Meaning of ' Meaning '", as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic externalism.

Putnam has since expressed agreement with Burge's interpretation of the thought experiment.

Putnam has since conceded the point and subscribes to McDowell's neo-Wittgensteinian therapeutic invocation of the mind as a structured system of object involving abilities.

( What Putnam has since defended as a neo-Aristotelian picture of mind-see his papers " Changing Aristotle's Mind " and " Aristotle after Wittgenstein ")

Phil Hutchinson has since argued that this concession to McDowell means that the distinction which Putnam wishes to operationalize, between intension and extension is now problematized.

At the end of his four years there were 10 branches, 5 minor branches, called ‘ reading rooms ,’ and 56 deposit stations … the library grew from a total of 610, 375 volumes at the close of 1894 to 716, 050 at the close of 1898 .” Another contribution made by Putnam towards the Boston Public Library was the addition of a room devoted to juveniles, “ believed to have been the first room wholly devoted to the service of children in any of the larger libraries of the country .”

John Russell Young died in January 1899, and “ President William McKinley found himself faced with the responsibility of appointing a Librarian of Congress who should preside over the affairs of the institution whose building had been completed but years ago .” President McKinley requested Herbert Putnam to be appointed to the task, and Putnam was officially confirmed to the duties of Librarian of Congress on December 12, 1899.

Today, inside the city limits, Williamston Road becomes Putnam Street, having been named in their honor.

In May 1952, Memorial Field, to be dedicated to the Putnam Lake casualties of World War II, was proposed to replace the swimming pool, which had not been used since the early 1930s because it was contaminated with seepage and infested with leeches.

The term frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism and has been used by social scientists such as Friedrich Hayek, philosophers of science such as Karl Popper, and philosophers such as Hilary Putnam to describe the dogmatic endorsement of scientific methodology and the reduction of all knowledge to only that which is measurable.

Putnam say ’ s “… beyond a doubt that social connectedness is one of the most powerful determinates of our well being .” In particular it is face to face connections which have been show to have greater impacts then non-face to face relationships.

The accusation by Ann Putnam Jr. is seen by historians as evidence that a family feud may have been a major cause of the Witch Trials.

Since the first competition, the top five ( or six, in case of a tie ) scorers on the examination have been named Putnam Fellows.

In the history of Competition, only eight students have been Putnam Fellows four times, with nineteen others winning the award three times.

Since 1992, the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award has been available to be awarded to a female participant with a high score.

In early 1969, Heider opened the San Francisco Wally Heider's Studio at 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco, between Turk and Eddy Streets, across the street from Black Hawk jazz club, in a building that had previously been used by 20th Century Fox for film offices, screening rooms and storage Heider had reportedly apprenticed as an assistant and mixer at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, CA, with Bill Putnam, “ The Father of Modern Recording ”,

When Putnam and his men marched into the main camp at Harlem after dark, they were greeted by cheers, having been given up for lost.

He executed many translations from the French language, and a version ( 1687 ) of Don Quixote, which has been called by Quixote translator Samuel Putnam the worst English translation ever made of the famous novel.

Anal Cunt was formed on March 1, 1988, in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston, by Seth Putnam, who had previously been a member of bands such as Executioner and Satan's Warriors.

Other releases that had been promised included a sequel to Picnic of Love ( Picnic of Love II ) and an Anal Cunt / Gay Bar split, featuring unreleased Anal Cunt material from the Putnam / Martin / Linehan era on one side and a recording of Seth Putnam in a gay bar on the other.

Later, Putnam also claimed that a ghost appeared before her to announce that it had been murdered by Corey.

By May, 70 civil actions had been filed against Putnam for allegedly engaging in improper trading.

In recent years, Putnam has been engaged in a comprehensive study of the relationship between trust within communities and their ethnic diversity.

An appendix ( Symposium ) featured texts by Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford, with a note by Zukofsky, a text by Samuel Putnam and Zukofsky-translated poems by André Salmon and René Taupin.

Even so, Putnam and Martin recorded a few songs for a Black Sabbath tribute, In These Black Days Volume 1, which was a split with Eyehategod and featured Putnam on drums.

White's first album, 1969's Black and White, was recorded with Muscle Shoals / Nashville musicians David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured " Willie and Laura Mae Jones " and " Polk Salad Annie ", along with covers of Jimmy Webb's " Wichita Lineman ".

The documentary Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage ( 1993 ) from American Experience also featured the Putnam-Earhart marriage. Richard Gere portrayed Putnam in the 2009 movie, Amelia.

: Howard Putnam is featured in Pass It On, Share the W. I. S. H.