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Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action : Patterns, Trends and Understandings /
"There are great expectations of voluntary action in contemporary Britain but limited in-depth insight into the level, distribution and understanding of what constitutes voluntary activity. Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this book charts change and...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN VOLUNTARY ACTION; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on authors; Acronyms; 1. Introduction; How and why people volunteer: definition and measurement, motivations and meanings; Sources and methods; Structure of the book; 2. The changing policy environment for voluntary action from 1979; Introduction; 'A crescendo of political rhetoric': the Conservative governments, 1979-97; New Labour and hyperactive mainstreaming; The Big Society, localism and the kaleidoscope of voluntary action; Conclusions
- 3. Data: sources and definitionsIntroduction; Quantitative data: longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of voluntary action; Qualitative data sources: Mass Observation Project; Analytical decisions: selection and analysis of individual writers and survey respondents; How the datasets fit together; Conclusion; 4. Trends in volunteering and trends in the voluntary sector; Introduction; Aggregate trends in voluntary action, 1981-2016; The nature of volunteering behaviour 1981-2012: how do MOP writers describe what they do?; Trends in the voluntary sector; Discussion
- 5. Content and context of volunteeringIntroduction; Quantitative analyses: the balance between formal and informal volunteering, and the nature of the voluntary activities that individuals carry out; Qualitative evidence: the where, to whom and what of voluntary activity; Conclusions; 6. Why people volunteer: contextualising motivation; Introduction: challenges of obtaining accounts of volunteer motivation; Data; Vignettes: synopses of writers' volunteering lifecourses; Influences, triggers or motives
- what's the difference?; Motive and recall of anticipation of benefits
- Conclusion: volunteering motives and the lifecourse7. Volunteering trajectories: individual patterns of volunteering over the lifecourse; Introduction; Quantitative evidence; The shape of writers' trajectories; Routes into and out of volunteering; Conclusion; 8. Attitudes to voluntary action; Introduction; Survey data from the British Social Attitudes Survey and from the National Survey of Voluntary Activity; Attitudinal material from the Mass Observation Project, 1996 and 2012; Responses to the idea of the Big Society; Conclusion; 9. Conclusions; Overview; Future scenarios
- Appendix: Anonymised list of writersReferences; Index