The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies

A Literature Review
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37188-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 113 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Voluntaristics Review

Reviewed here is global research on how 13 types of Voluntary Membership Associations (MAs) have significantly or substantially had global impacts on human history, societies, and life. Such outcomes have occurred especially in the past 200+ years since the Industrial Revolution circa 1800 CE, and its accompanying Organizational Revolution. Emphasized are longer-term, historical, and societal or multinational impacts of MAs, rather than more micro-level (individual) or meso-level (organizational) outcomes. MAs are distinctively structured, with power coming from the membership, not top-down. The author has characterized MAs as the dark matter of the nonprofit/third sector, using an astrophysical metaphor. Astrophysicists have shown that most physical matter in the universe is dark in the sense of being unseen, not stars or planets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, David Horton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Introduction: The Beat of a Different Drum—Voluntary Associations as an Alternative and Neglected Voluntary Sector Paradigm

Colin Rochester

Author Biography

David Horton Smith

The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies: A Literature Review

David Horton Smith

Abstract

Keywords

Synopsis

A Overview

B Definitions

C Scientific Paradigm Shifts, Metaphors, and Broader Meanings of Global Impact

D Historical Background of MA Impact Research

E Key Association Types for Global Impact

F Conclusion

G Recent Trends and Research Needed

H Usable Knowledge

I Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

David Horton Smith (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965) is Research and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA. Founder (1971) of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action/ARNOVA (www.arnova.org) and NVSQ, he is founding editor of this journal.