Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781447324867
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1447324862
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9781447324874
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1447324870
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9781447324881
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1447324889
Series Statement:
Third Sector Research Ser
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Intro; CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN VOLUNTARY ACTION; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on authors; Acronyms; 1. Introduction; How and why people volunteer: definition and measurement, motivations and meanings; Sources and methods; Structure of the book; 2. The changing policy environment for voluntary action from 1979; Introduction; 'A crescendo of political rhetoric': the Conservative governments, 1979-97; New Labour and hyperactive mainstreaming; The Big Society, localism and the kaleidoscope of voluntary action; Conclusions
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3. Data: sources and definitionsIntroduction; Quantitative data: longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of voluntary action; Qualitative data sources: Mass Observation Project; Analytical decisions: selection and analysis of individual writers and survey respondents; How the datasets fit together; Conclusion; 4. Trends in volunteering and trends in the voluntary sector; Introduction; Aggregate trends in voluntary action, 1981-2016; The nature of volunteering behaviour 1981-2012: how do MOP writers describe what they do?; Trends in the voluntary sector; Discussion
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5. Content and context of volunteeringIntroduction; Quantitative analyses: the balance between formal and informal volunteering, and the nature of the voluntary activities that individuals carry out; Qualitative evidence: the where, to whom and what of voluntary activity; Conclusions; 6. Why people volunteer: contextualising motivation; Introduction: challenges of obtaining accounts of volunteer motivation; Data; Vignettes: synopses of writers' volunteering lifecourses; Influences, triggers or motives -- what's the difference?; Motive and recall of anticipation of benefits
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Conclusion: volunteering motives and the lifecourse7. Volunteering trajectories: individual patterns of volunteering over the lifecourse; Introduction; Quantitative evidence; The shape of writers' trajectories; Routes into and out of volunteering; Conclusion; 8. Attitudes to voluntary action; Introduction; Survey data from the British Social Attitudes Survey and from the National Survey of Voluntary Activity; Attitudinal material from the Mass Observation Project, 1996 and 2012; Responses to the idea of the Big Society; Conclusion; 9. Conclusions; Overview; Future scenarios
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Appendix: Anonymised list of writersReferences; Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lindsey, Rose Continuity and change in voluntary action Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2018 1447324838
Additional Edition:
9781447324836
Language:
English
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