Author: Rose Lindsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781447324850
Category : Social participation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this pioneering work charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981.
Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action
Author: Rose Lindsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781447324850
Category : Social participation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this pioneering work charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781447324850
Category : Social participation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this pioneering work charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981.
Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action
Author: Rose Lindsey
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447324862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
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 continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. How voluntary action has been defined and measured is considered alongside individuals’ accounts of their participation and engagement in volunteering over their lifecourses. Addressing fundamental questions such as whether the public are cynical about or receptive to calls for greater voluntary action, the book considers whether respective government expectations of volunteering can really be fulfilled. Is Britain really a “shared society”, or a “big society”, and what is the scope for expansion of voluntary effort? This pioneering study combines rich, qualitative material from the Mass Observation Archive between 1981 and 2012, and data from many longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys. Part of the Third Sector Research Series, this book is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447324862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
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 continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. How voluntary action has been defined and measured is considered alongside individuals’ accounts of their participation and engagement in volunteering over their lifecourses. Addressing fundamental questions such as whether the public are cynical about or receptive to calls for greater voluntary action, the book considers whether respective government expectations of volunteering can really be fulfilled. Is Britain really a “shared society”, or a “big society”, and what is the scope for expansion of voluntary effort? This pioneering study combines rich, qualitative material from the Mass Observation Archive between 1981 and 2012, and data from many longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys. Part of the Third Sector Research Series, this book is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.
Continuity and Change in the Birmingham Voluntary Action Field, 1965-2010
Author: Eleanor Margaret Munro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action
Author: Colin Rochester
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837642028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action. This title includes chapters that range across two centuries and a variety of fields of activity, geographical areas and organisational forms.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837642028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action. This title includes chapters that range across two centuries and a variety of fields of activity, geographical areas and organisational forms.
Researching Voluntary Action
Author: Jon Dean
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447356691
Category : Nonprofit organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
With case studies from around the world, this accessible book explores the methodological complexities of research into voluntary action, charitable behaviour and participation in voluntary organisations.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447356691
Category : Nonprofit organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
With case studies from around the world, this accessible book explores the methodological complexities of research into voluntary action, charitable behaviour and participation in voluntary organisations.
Two Paths, One Purpose : Voluntary Action in Ireland, North and South
Author: Nicholas Acheson
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration
ISBN: 9781904541127
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration
ISBN: 9781904541127
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Researching the Lifecourse
Author: Nancy Worth
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447334485
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences. Researching the Lifecourse offers a distinctive approach in that it truly covers the lifecourse (childhood, adulthood and older age), focusing on innovative methods and case study examples from a variety of European and North American contexts. This original approach connects theory and practice from across the social sciences by situating methodology and research design within relevant conceptual frameworks. This diverse collection features methods that are linked to questions of time, space and mobilities while providing practitioners with practical detail in each chapter.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447334485
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences. Researching the Lifecourse offers a distinctive approach in that it truly covers the lifecourse (childhood, adulthood and older age), focusing on innovative methods and case study examples from a variety of European and North American contexts. This original approach connects theory and practice from across the social sciences by situating methodology and research design within relevant conceptual frameworks. This diverse collection features methods that are linked to questions of time, space and mobilities while providing practitioners with practical detail in each chapter.
Meeting the Challenge of Change: Summary of evidence and selected papers for the Report of the Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector
Author: Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector
Publisher: Nvco Publications
ISBN: 9780719914997
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Publisher: Nvco Publications
ISBN: 9780719914997
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice
Author: Anthea Hucklesby
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113737067X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in criminal justice. At a time when the voluntary sector's role is being transformed, this book examines the dynamic nature of the voluntary sector and its responses to current uncertainties, and some of the conflicting positions with regards to its present and future role in criminal justice work. It also examines the potential impact of economic, political and ideological trends on the role and remit of voluntary sector organisations which undertake criminal justice work.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113737067X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in criminal justice. At a time when the voluntary sector's role is being transformed, this book examines the dynamic nature of the voluntary sector and its responses to current uncertainties, and some of the conflicting positions with regards to its present and future role in criminal justice work. It also examines the potential impact of economic, political and ideological trends on the role and remit of voluntary sector organisations which undertake criminal justice work.
Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939
Author: Robert Snape
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350003026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities. Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350003026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities. Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.