The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies - A Literature 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: David Horton Smith
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2018
• EAN: 9789004371880
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37188-0
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 234 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories