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Volunteers : a social profile / Marc A. Musick and John Wilson.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Musick, Marc A.
- Series:
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voluntarism.
- Volunteers.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 663 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The importance of studying volunteering
- What is volunteering?
- Personality
- Motives
- Values, norms, and attitudes
- Socio-economic resources
- Time and health
- Gender
- Race
- The life course: the early stages
- The life course: the later stages
- Social resources
- Volunteer recruitment
- Schools and congregations
- Community, neighborhood, city, and region
- Cross-national differences
- Trends in volunteering
- Volunteer tasks
- The volunteer role
- Citizenship and prosocial behavior
- Occupation, income, and health
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "... most of the empirical documentation for our arguments is contained in over one hundred tables that are not published in the book itself but are available in PDF form ..."--Preface.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [581]-632) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253349293
- 025334929X
- OCLC:
- 85018221
- Online:
- Additional tables
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