Making Volunteers - Civic Life After Welfare''s End

Info autore

Nina Eliasoph is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Avoiding Politics.

Riassunto

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, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look insid

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nina Eliasoph, Eliasoph Nina
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9780691162072
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16207-2
• Pagine: 336
• Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Poverty and precarity, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Housing and homelessness