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Volunteers : a social profile / Marc A. Musick and John Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Musick, Marc A.
- Series:
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voluntarism.
- Volunteers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (681 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Who tends to volunteer and why? What causes attract certain types of volunteers? What motivates people to volunteer? How can volunteers be persuaded to continue their service? Making use of a broad range of survey information to offer a detailed portrait of the volunteer in America, Volunteers provides an important resource for everyone who works with volunteers or is interested in their role in contemporary society. Mark A. Musick and John Wilson address issues of volunteer motivation by focusi
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-632) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07832-1
- 9786612078323
- 0-253-11686-4
- OCLC:
- 476128314
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