The Values of Volunteering : Cross-Cultural Perspectives /

The Values of Volunteering examines volunteering in detail from a civil society perspective, using empirical data garnered from various sources for countries all over the globe. The contributions in this title deal with a broad spectrum of questions, ranging from the diversity, social and cultural d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dekker, Paul
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Halman, Loek
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
Series:Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Volunteering and Values: An Introduction
  • All in the Eyes of the Beholder? Perceptions of Volunteering Across Eight Countries
  • Volunteering in Global Perspective
  • Modernization and Volunteering
  • Institutional Roots of Volunteering: Towards a Macro-Structural Theory of Individual Voluntary Action
  • Do People Who Volunteer Have a Distinctive Ethos? A Canadian Study
  • A Humanistic Perspective on the Volunteer-Recipient Relationship: A Mexican Study
  • From Restitution to Innovation: Volunteering in Post-Communist Countries
  • Volunteering in Romania: A 'Rara Avis'
  • Generations and Organizational Change
  • Volunteering, Democracy, and Democratic Attitudes
  • Cultivating Apathy in Voluntary Associations.