The values of volunteering : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Paul Dekker and Loek Halman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dekker, Paul.

Halman, Loek.

Series:

Nonprofit and civil society studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voluntarism--Cross-cultural studies.

Voluntarism.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Volunteering and Values: An Introduction / Paul Dekker, Loek Halman 1

Chapter 2 All in the Eyes of the Beholder? Perceptions of Volunteering Across Eight Countries / Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, Femida Handy, Ram A. Cnaan, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Ugo Ascoli, Shree Ranade, Lesley Hustinx, Suzanne Weber, Idit Weiss 19

A Cross-Cultural Analysis 21

Chapter 3 Volunteering in Global Perspective / Virginia A. Hodgkinson 35

The Rate and Scope of Volunteering in Various Countries 36

Volunteering Rates by Nation 38

The Fields in Which Volunteers Are Active 41

Social Resources Theory 45

Chapter 4 Modernization and Volunteering / Ronald Inglehart 55

Volunteering in Knowledge Societies 55

Modernization and Cultural Change: Two Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Variation 56

Intergenerational Differences in Membership and Volunteering 60

Three Types of Volunteering 63

Chapter 5 Institutional Roots of Volunteering: Toward a Macro-Structural Theory of Individual Voluntary Action / Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski 71

Volunteering in 24 Countries: Major Findings 72

Explaining Patterns of Volunteering 77

Chapter 6 Do People Who Volunteer Have a Distinctive Ethos? A Canadian Study / Paul Reed, L. Kevin Selbee 91

Data and Analysis Strategy 93

Chapter 7 A Humanistic Perspective on the Volunteer-Recipient Relationship: A Mexican Study / Jacqueline Butcher 111

A Humanistic Approach to Volunteering 113

Volunteering as "Serving" and as "Helping" 116

An Empirical Study with Mexican Volunteers 117

The Dynamics of the Volunteer-Recipient Relationship 120

Chapter 8 From Restitution to Innovation: Volunteering in Postcommunist Countries / Stanislovas Juknevicius, Aida Savicka 127

Marxist Theory and the Practice of Volunteering 129

Dynamics of Volunteering in Postcommunist Countries 132

Volunteering in Lithuania 137

Conclusion: The Future of Volunteering 141

Chapter 9 Volunteering in Romania: A Rara Avis / Malina Voicu, Bodgan Voicu 143

Conceptual Delimitations and Theoretical Background 144

Individual Determinants of Volunteering in Romania 149

Contextual Determinants of Volunteering in Romania 153

Chapter 10 Generations and Organizational Change / Dag Wolleboek, Per Selle 161

Introduction: Where Have All the Volunteers Gone? 161

Design and Data 163

Generational Differences Reflect and Cause Social Change 164

The Results: Attitudes toward Voluntary Organizing 166

What Distinguishes New Organizations from Traditional Ones? 170

Toward a New Organizational Society? 175

Chapter 11 Volunteering, Democracy, and Democratic Attitudes / Loek Halman 179

Some Theoretical Considerations 181

Data and Measurements 185

Analyses 187

Chapter 12 Cultivating Apathy in Voluntary Associations / Nina Eliasoph 199

The Ideal 201

Volunteers Encouraging Each Other to Care 201

"We Accomplish a Lot": The "Frontstage" Is for Volunteer Groups 203

Backstage Complaints and Recognition of Problems 205

Officials Reinforce Volunteers' Political Avoidance 207

The Culture of Political Avoidance 209

Bridging Private and Public: The Strange Case of Child-Centered Civic Life in the United States 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0306477378

0306478544

OCLC:

51818589