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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph
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
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph
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
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui