Why I chose Bowling Alone...

I chose to read Bowling Alone because it is about community, a topic that has interested me throughout multiple classes at CSU. I hope that reading this book will help me develop some of my ideas about community including my personal striving to be part of a community; the impact that the changing makeup of communities has on society; and the role that community has in prisons in terms of how incarcerated individuals form communities (both formally and informally), how teachers can be part of the community-forming process in prison, and the crucial merging of inside-prison communities with outside-prison communities.

Oh, and as for the title, according to the back cover, Americans no longer participate in the once-popular bowling leagues that used to exist all over the U.S. Instead, they are bowing alone, a sign that community just isn't what it used to be.