Making Volunteers : : Civic Life after Welfare's End /

Making Volunteers : : Civic Life after Welfare's End / / Nina Eliasoph.

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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Eliasoph, Nina,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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