Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
Autore | Eliasoph Nina |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.370973 |
Collana | Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Voluntarism - United States
Young volunteers in community development - United States Volunteer workers in community development - United States Community development - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Community House
Snowy Prairie adult volunteers bad habits bureaucracy celebrating diversity civic association civic engagement projects civic programs civic skills civic volunteering comfort community empowerment community programs community service crime prevention cultural cleansing cultural diversity cultural preservation cultural tradition culture democracy desires disadvantaged youth distant others distinct cultures diversity divided society empowerment programs empowerment projects empowerment talk everyday routines family-like attachments family food future potential historical transformations hopelessness inequality inspiring volunteers intimacy local grassroots support loyalty mismatched time frames mixers multicultural community multiculturalism needs needy volunteers non-disadvantaged youth nonprofit organization paid organizers plug-in volunteers political engagement politics potentials poverty predictable routines protectors public events safety shared experiences short-term bonds short-term volunteering social diversity social divisions sociological lessons state agency temporal disconnections temporal leapfrog timing transforming volunteers unique cultures unmet needs volunteer coordination volunteer expertise volunteer work volunteering youth participants youth program participants youth programs youth volunteers |
ISBN |
1-283-00915-3
9786613009159 1-4008-3882-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456896103321 |
Eliasoph Nina | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
Autore | Eliasoph Nina |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.370973 |
Collana | Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Voluntarism - United States
Young volunteers in community development - United States Volunteer workers in community development - United States Community development - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Community House
Snowy Prairie adult volunteers bad habits bureaucracy celebrating diversity civic association civic engagement projects civic programs civic skills civic volunteering comfort community empowerment community programs community service crime prevention cultural cleansing cultural diversity cultural preservation cultural tradition culture democracy desires disadvantaged youth distant others distinct cultures diversity divided society empowerment programs empowerment projects empowerment talk everyday routines family-like attachments family food future potential historical transformations hopelessness inequality inspiring volunteers intimacy local grassroots support loyalty mismatched time frames mixers multicultural community multiculturalism needs needy volunteers non-disadvantaged youth nonprofit organization paid organizers plug-in volunteers political engagement politics potentials poverty predictable routines protectors public events safety shared experiences short-term bonds short-term volunteering social diversity social divisions sociological lessons state agency temporal disconnections temporal leapfrog timing transforming volunteers unique cultures unmet needs volunteer coordination volunteer expertise volunteer work volunteering youth participants youth program participants youth programs youth volunteers |
ISBN |
1-283-00915-3
9786613009159 1-4008-3882-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781293903321 |
Eliasoph Nina | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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