‘Trunk or treat!’
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The next sociologist to update Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone ought to write about “trunk or treat.” The declines in neighborhood cohesion and childhood freedom can both be traced to the replacement of trick-or-treating with its sanitized simulacrum, in which kids in costumes go around a parking lot, collecting candy from the rear of their friends’
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‘Trunk or treat!’
The next sociologist to update Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone ought to write about “trunk or treat.” The declines in neighborhood cohesion and childhood freedom can both be traced to the replacement of trick-or-treating with its sanitized simulacrum, in which kids in costumes...
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