How does Robert D. Putnam use imagery in Bowling Alone?

Examples of Imagery:

"Churches provide an important incubator for civic skills, civic norms, community interests, and civic recruitment." Chapter 4, pg. 66

"Television, two-career families, suburban sprawl, generational changes in values—these and other changes in American society have meant that fewer and fewer of us find that the League of Women Voters, or the United Way, or the Shriners, or the monthly bridge club, or even a Sunday picnic with friends fits the way we have come to live." Chapter 23, pg. 367