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Hart, Susan Mary Anne. "Archival acquisition of the records of voluntary associations." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27258.
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While acquisition is a vital responsibility for all archival repositories, generally accepted principles and practices of archival acquisition are sadly lacking in North America. This problem is particularly apparent with regard to the records of voluntary associations, the nature and significance of which are largely unknown to archivists. This thesis studies the problem of, and proposes a system for, archival acquisition of the records of voluntary associations. To begin with, it provides a definition, description, and categorization of voluntary associations, and delineates their life cycle and relationships with other organizations. The thesis subsequently moves on to consider the records-keeping practices of voluntary associations, the relevant acquisition practices of archival repositories, and applicable archival theories of acquisition and appraisal. Ethnographic methodology is used to analyse two voluntary associations, their activities, and their records-keeping practices. Finally it is proposed that archival repositories acquire the records of voluntary associations, that this can be done by existing repositories and through such arrangements as special committees, consortiums of associations, and special repositories, and that a standard procedure be followed by repositories when acquiring the records of a voluntary association.Arts, Faculty of
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Prince, John, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Reinvigorating the public sphere: The role of voluntary associations." Deakin University. School of Social and International Studies, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.114655.
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This thesis examines the key question: can voluntary associations enhance democracy? It tests critical claims made by Habermas and others that voluntary associations have the potential to reinvigorate a public sphere in a state of atrophy. The thesis outlines the major theoretical arguments pertaining to these areas and then presents the results of empirical work within voluntary organisations.
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Critically examines the concept of the public sphere, being a sphere between the state and civil society and investigates why theorists have advocated voluntary associations, claimed to be the core institutions of civil society, as sites where democratic ideals can be secured;
Goes on to examine the concept of civil society and reviews the recent literature that has attempted to define and analyse the role of voluntary associations in contemporary society;
Tests empirically the normative ideals that have been advocated on behalf of voluntary associations through the presentation of data obtained using qualitative methodology. The analysis of the data collected during interviews with key employees and members of six voluntary associations in Melbourne, Australia allows for a more informed knowledge regarding the key concepts and themes of the thesis.
The thesis ends by directly addressing the following points: whether or not the public sphere is in a state of atrophy; the particular nature of voluntary associations contemporary engagement in the public sphere; and whether voluntary associations can indeed, be sites where democracy can be enhanced and democratic ideals be secured. It is concluded that voluntary associations operate within Habermasian public spheres, counterspheres, and postmodern public spheres and that unitary notions of the public sphere, such as those Habermas proposes, do not adequately explain voluntary associations engagement in the public sphere. Accordingly, it is concluded that voluntary associations have the potential to invigorate public spheres, though not in ways that many theorists writing on the subject suggest.
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Kreutzer, Karin. "How voluntary associations work : problems of organization and management /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2009. http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz311479812inh.htm.
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Alexander, William Lee 1963. "Voluntary associations of and for the homeless in Tucson." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277193.
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An overview is presented of anthropology's interest in voluntary association, from the classical influences and studies to sociological and anthropological work that illustrate recent trends from the last decade. Information is presented from the author's fieldwork with the Tucson Homeless Union and the Southern Arizona Coalition for the Homeless that describes the homeless situation in Tucson and the efforts of these groups, whose members share a dedication to improving conditions for socioeconomically marginal people through activist means of protest and civil disobedience. Marked by fluidity of membership and unique internal dynamics, these groups present a special case-study of voluntary associations as a means of urban adaptation through self-help and as a vehicle for social change. It is demonstrated how and examination of the values expressed by the existence and actions of these associations is useful in understanding the nature of society and the stability of the political system.
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Calnan, James E. Taylor. "Blessed be the tie that binds, voluntary associations and community in Picton, Ontario, 1870-1914." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ51036.pdf.
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Dalgleish, Andrew J. "Voluntary associations and the middle class in Edinburgh, 1780-1820." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26426.
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From the late 18th century there was an increase in the formation of voluntary associations in Britain and a growth in the membership of such organisations. This thesis analyses the historical significance of voluntary societies created and supported by the Edinburgh middle class between 1780 and 1820. Chapter Two outlines the social structure of Edinburgh in this period. Using categorised occupational titles from the Post Office Directories, the diversity of the middle class, and the preponderance of small units of production and retailing is emphasised. Chapter Three contextualises the changing typical cultural form of elite voluntary associations from relatively small, exclusivist, ephemeral and introverted organisations to more open 'subscriber democracies' which publicly projected their aims and aspired to gain social authority. The next three chapters examine the impetus, aims, institutional practices and memberships of key voluntary societies in the fields of policing and poor relief, religion and education. It is argued that the cultural production of such organisations was crucial for the mediation of power within and between classes during this period of rapid social change. Although elite-led, voluntary associations provided concensual platforms of common interest for the Edinburgh middle class, appealing to their shared concerns about commercial prosperity, discrimination in the distribution of resources, and the supervision of the poor. Chapter Seven uses techniques of nominal record linkage to provide quantitative evidence of the social characteristics of membership of various types of Societies. The over-representation of the legal/commercial elite, and the under-representation of lower middle class groups compared to their proportion in the middle class as a whole is emphasised. Interconnections between certain types of membership lend substance to the argument for a growing cohesiveness of middle class organisation. The thesis contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of middle class formation in the early 19th century. The creation of a self-aware and socially confident middle class by the 1820s was partly due to their participation in voluntary associations which claimed to be representative of Edinburgh inhabitants in ways which local state and parish-based authorities could not be.
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Begley, Siobhan. "Voluntary associations and the civic ideal in Leicester, 1870-1939." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9924.
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This thesis discusses the contribution of voluntary associations to the civic ideal in Leicester between 1870 and 1939. It demonstrates the growth in local voluntary associations over the period and illustrates the role they played in public life. Voluntary associations throughout the period 1870 to 1939 helped in the management of local public affairs and provided an organized social life in the town. They promoted social cohesion and a perception of civic unity as well as allowing an expression of difference. Associational life in Leicester became denser between 1870 and 1939, mutating from an elite to a more inclusive model and involvement in voluntary groups that embraced the civic ideal helped previously marginalised groups to integrate into public life. Although national influence encroached on local associational life over these decades there remained a balance between local bodies and those with a national dimension, with branches of some national associations assuming a strong local identity. The meetings of the voluntary associations helped structure an annual local calendar that was represented by the Leicester newspapers as part of a shared culture of interest to all Leicester residents. This regular programme of associational life underpinned the organisation and credibility of a ‘one off’ spectacular, the Leicester Pageant of 1932, an event which was supported by local voluntary associations, through which thousands of Leicester townspeople were mobilised to participate. The success of this occasion demonstrated that, in the 1930s, Leicester residents still retained a sense of civic and local identity. This is contrary to a perception in recent scholarship that the popularity of civic ceremony in provincial towns had decreased from the end of the nineteenth century and that this was symptomatic of a decline in the credibility of the civic ideal.
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Wiertz, Dingeman. "A bridge too far? : volunteering, voluntary associations, and social cohesion." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:65726d10-6cf1-432c-9bac-9f2ffd9a4270.
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In this thesis, I seek to advance our knowledge about the factors that make people start and stop volunteer work, thus shedding light on the capacity of volunteering and voluntary associations to foster social cohesion. In particular, my goal is twofold: first, to reveal to what extent voluntary associations function as meeting places for people from different social backgrounds, and second, to assess the resilience of civic participation in the face of labor market experiences that might undermine such engagement. I make three core contributions to the literature on voluntary association involvement. First, I pay special attention to the organizational contexts in which volunteers are embedded. Second, I adopt a dynamic approach, analyzing decisions to start and stop volunteering. Third, I attempt to disentangle alternative mechanisms that could drive the associations observed between volunteering and its potential determinants. Analyzing data from The Netherlands and the United States, my findings expose limits to the integrative capacity of voluntary association involvement. As it turns out, the civic landscape is strongly segregated. People tend to sort into voluntary associations where they mostly meet people with similar characteristics as themselves. Such sorting occurs along multiple social dimensions, including educational attainment, religiosity, gender, and ethnicity. This constrains the opportunities for building relationships that cut across existing social boundaries. Indeed, these sorting processes can reproduce in the civic domain fault lines that dominate other spheres of life. Furthermore, civic engagement and participation in the labor market are shown to be strongly intertwined, with the former breaking down when labor force exits occur. Voluntary association involvement is, therefore, of limited value for drawing labor force outsiders into public life. However, this chain of events does not necessarily unfold, as long as labor force outsiders retain aspirations to participate in social life.
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Gorsky, Martin. "Charity, mutuality and philanthropy : voluntary provision in Bristol, 1800-70." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/104fbd2e-c6d6-4131-9d6f-271dedbc6fde.
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Ascough, Richard S. "Voluntary associations and community formation, Paul's Macedonian Christian communities in context." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25204.pdf.
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Kamerade, Daiga. "Changes in employment-related time use and activity in voluntary associations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611271.
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Leung, Mann-yan Frances. "A selective look at Chinese voluntary associations and schools in Singapore and Thailand." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1347456X.
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Arai, Susan M. "Voluntary associations as spaces for democracy, toward a critical theory on volunteers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0001/NQ43243.pdf.
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Lee, Anthony David. "The development and operation of large scale voluntary transfer associations 1988-1999." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/37/.
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This thesis examines the development by local authorities of alternative models of ownership of public housing, focusing on large scale voluntary transfers (LSVTs) to specially created housing associations. I attempt to place stock transfer within the wider policy context of changes in the State’s role in the provision of services; and changes in organisational development, reflected in transfer structures; and the wider shift in responsibility for the delivery of public services to the private sector. I examine theories that explain the development of the State’s role in housing and discuss their relationship to LSVT. As discussions involving ‘the State’ must recognise the different interests and motivations of Central and local government, I examine action taken to promote and achieve stock transfer by local authorities and central government. The research method adopted to achieve my aims includes both analysis of existing data and the collection of new data through a sample survey of twenty LSVT associations. I approached the research in five stages: background research – including reviewing literature and examining the legal and regulatory framework for LSVT; identifying the characteristics of early LSVT associations; selecting a sample of twenty selected associations for in-depth survey; conducting in-depth interviews with the twenty associations; analysing and tabulating the data collected and drawing conclusions. The survey focuses on staff perceptions of the reasons for transfer and why politicians and tenants accepted the change; organisational and management change brought about by the new landlords; and the changes brought about by private sector involvement, including new personnel brought in to help run the organisations and the influence of private funders. I attempt to draw key conclusions about LSVT associations from the evidence presented. Finally, I examine how early LSVTs paved the way for a wider stock transfer programme, including transfers by inner-urban authorities and large city councils. I argue that while LSVT may have been developed in response to the financial pressure upon local authorities from the early 1980s onwards, the process has created a new style of business orientated social landlord.
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Leung, Mann-yan Frances, and 梁曼茵. "A selective look at Chinese voluntary associations and schools in Singapore and Thailand." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195036X.
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Nedilsky, Lida V. "The web of voluntary associations : Christian community and civil society in Hong Kong /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3055795.
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Lundqvist, Ella. "Socialt kapital genom Föreningsengagemang? : Föreningsengagemanget betydelse för det sociala kapitalet." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för politiska och historiska studier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-16415.
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This study examines the connection between social capital and involvement within voluntary associations; involvement is defined either as being a member in an association or a member who has some kind of assignment in an association. The study also examines if there is a difference between two social economic groups regarding the attainment and transformation of social capital through being involved in a voluntary association. Social capital is defined as social trust and the willingness of collective action. The result of the research shows there is a slight connection between the involvement in voluntary associations and social capital. It shows that people who are members of a voluntary association often have higher social capital than those who are not members of any voluntary association at all. The study also shows that there is a difference in attainment of social capital between those who have some kind of assignment in a voluntary association and general members. When studying social capital and involvement in voluntary associations it is also of interest to take social class into the analysis, because the study shows that people with a lower education had increased social capital when they were members in an association compared to the members with a higher education.
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Siwahla, Lindiwe Lillian. "Voluntary associations as schools for democracy? : a case study of the Sibanye Development Project." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004778.
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This is an empirical study of a voluntary association with a view to interrogate the theories of civil society and participation and their practice. These theories came to dominate debate on African politics and democratisation following disappointment with structural approaches to development and democracy. Disenchantment with the state whose role was emphasised by the structural approach led analysts and technocrats to turn their attention to human agency; hence the salience of the idea of popular participation in the public domain, and preoccupation with the idea of strengthening civil society. This trend gained momentum after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the communist block, and was accompanied by anti-statist sentiments on a global scale. Civil society organisations are seen as schools for democracy and agents of democratic consolidation, and are accordingly expected to perform two major tasks, namely instilling and disseminating a democratic political culture in and among participants and society at large, and promoting good governance. The aim therefore is to take advantage of the supposed intrinsic and utilitarian benefits of participation. As evident in a number of policy documents and legislation, the incumbent South African government embraces the idea of participatory democracy. However, not all analysts share this confidence in the capacity of civil society to perform these tasks. For some analysts public participation does not always have positive intrinsic benefits. Public participation may instead lead to a corrupted political culture deriving from the participants' attempts to survive in a public sphere characterised by manipulation and subtle political control, and it is civil society organisations lacking in organisational strength that are particularly vulnerable. The study revealed that unity between practice and theories of participation and civil society is a complex matter fraught with a number of ambiguities and contradictions. It revealed that though participation in the voluntary association in question does have educative benefits, those benefits do not extend to all the participants. In addition, the quality of that education is contingent upon a number of factors, some internal, others external. The internal and external factors reinforce one another. The internal factors pertain to the organisational dynamics of the voluntary association itself, and the external factors to the nature of the relationship between the voluntary association concerned and public authorities and other civil society organisations.KMBT_363
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Leist, Marilyn Thomas. "Increasing Stages of Social Activism and Responsiveness to the National Agenda: How Women Experience Membership in the American Association of University Women." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30395.
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The problem investigated in this study was how individuals participate in the local units of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and particularly how their participation relates to the program and policy initiatives of the national association. The purpose was to understand and describe how individuals experience branch membership, how they respond to the current program and policy initiatives of the association, and to examine some of the differences between members with regard to the salience of the initiatives. The research issues concerned why women join and retain their membership in local units, how they participate, and how they promote the program and policies of the national association.
The grounded theory method was used to perform this qualitative study. Ten participants, in two branches, were interviewed. The interviews were transcribed, using The Ethnograph tool, and then open, axial, and selective coding was carried out to discern patterns and themes from the data.
The findings, which emerged from the data, resulted in a model of four stages of increasing social activism and responsiveness to the national agenda. Attending to the mission of the association--to promote equity, lifelong education, and positive societal change--became increasingly important to some members as they moved through the stages. During the first stage, Participates, members simply attended meetings, took part in activities and fund-raisers, and some performed a branch role. During the second stage, Supports, they promoted education opportunities for specific women and girls, by setting up study groups, providing for local scholarships, or other educational activities. During the third stage, Facilitates, members actually promoted equity by disseminating information in the community concerning the association's issues. During the fourth stage, Advocates, members worked in the community to make changes based on issues from the national agenda.
The conclusions addressed member motivation, the importance of the social capital built through participation, and the internal consequences of membership. While most women joined and retained their membership in the local units for social contact, some joined because of the organization's mission. Their motivation to join and retain their membership made a difference in their level and kind of branch involvement. The importance of the social capital built during participation in branch activities, often diminished, is of utmost importance to the usually, conservative members as some of them became more engaged in the activist, national agenda. The internal consequences of membership in the local units of the voluntary association were more important to members than the external consequences, which led to incongruence between the national office and the branches.
This study adds to the body of knowledge regarding voluntary associations, particularly with respect to understanding how individuals experience membership at the local level, their goal orientation, and their motivation to participate over time.Ed. D.
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Müller, Johan Frederik. "Brand loyalty and membership retention rates in voluntary professional institutes and associations / Johan Frederik Müller." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9799.
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This dissertation explores both the concepts of brand loyalty and relationship marketing, specifically in a voluntary professional institutes and associations environment, with the assumption that both constructs can influence and improve the membership retention and membership renewal rates of these institutes and associations.
The measuring instrument used is similar to the one used by Moolla in his brand loyalty study in a FMCG environment, but in this case focussing on the services sector, specifically a South African voluntary professional institute, the Institute of Municipal Administration for Southern Africa (IMASA). The 12 brand loyalty influences identified by Moolla was electronically administered to members of IMASA, with 58 members eventually responding (response rate of 31%).
The conceptual research with regard to this study starts off by explaining the tendency of people to assemble in groups due to societal and other reasons, defining group cohesiveness and how this leads to the formation of people on a professional level – the birth of a professional institute and association (PIA). Then the concepts of relationship marketing and brand loyalty are defined, its relevance in a PIA environment discussed, and the 12 influences on brand loyalty also defined. The empirical analysis and results confirm that, with the exception of Culture and to a lesser extent Switching Costs, the constructs impact directly on the brand loyalty and indirectly on the renewal rates of the members of a PIA.
The value and uniqueness of this study are founded firstly in the identification of influences that affects brand loyalty and secondly in the importance of relationship marketing in a PIA environment. The recommendations guide the management of PIAs to ensure that membership levies defaulters are minimized and renewal rates maximised and sustained over time.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Magnusson, Oscar. "Voluntary Associations: Schools of Immigration Advocacy? : An investigation of the opinion-formin functions of civic society on issues of immigration." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412309.
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The issue of immigration is arguably one of the most loaded political issues. Not only for several member states of the European union but since the Dublin-agreement fell apart, maybe also for the union as a whole. The growing number of anti-immigrant parties on the rise have intensified the interest by scholars in the issue of anti-immigrant sentiments and its explanations, and recently, trust has been found to constitute one of the strongest explanatory variables for the attitudes toward immigration. But although the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence are there from separate fields of research, the link between voluntary associations, trust and support for immigration has not yet been connected. The idea of associations as a generator for “civic virtues” has been influential in the field of political science. But could the virtues fostered in associations have an impact in the attitudes toward immigration as well? By using data from the SOM-institutes national survey of 2016, this study conducts a quantitative investigation on an individual-level to the relationship between associations, trust and anti-immigrant sentiments. The study’s findings suggest that there is a significant positive relationship between membership in associations that partially is mediated by trust, and somewhat surprisingly, the study finds there may be something else to associational membership that has an significant impact on trust. Lastly, some theoretical arguments are provided to attribute this “something else”-effect to Putnam’s second civic virtue “generalized reciprocity”.
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Walmsley-Pledl, Sara R. "Playing a-part together : negotiating participation, practice and meaning in voluntary music associations in East Bavaria." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486234.
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This thesis explores the world of voluntary music making in East Bavaria. B~n~?8 with the distinctive way of life in this region, the thesis brings four contrasting voluntary associations of musicians into focus. The centrality of individual experience for membership of a voluntary music association is established and the study moves through different genres to illustrate how.musical and social processes intertwine at the level of the individual and are negotiated at the level of the group. The thesis aims to further understanding of membership of a voluntary music association. A phenomenological approach frames an analysis of the interplay of the individual's relationships with music making, the group and place. Music making is viewed as a process necessitating negotiation of relationships. V,?luntary music making is a leisure pursuit requiring the willingness of musicians to compromise and show commitment to the group. Attachment to place, as expressed in the concept of Heimat (home), is established as crucial for understanding group music making in this area. The thesis is divided into an introduction, seven chapters and conclusion. The first six chapters offer an analysis of individual musical experience in participation, practice and meaning. Key issues include musical community, motivation, skill, embodiment and the role of institutions. The last chapter shows how the experience of voluntary music participation may bring social responsibilities beyond the confines of the group. The thesis demonstrates the complexity of voluntary music participation. Musical competence rather than being an absolute is relative, so that a musician may be considered competent despite limited skill. Diversity of meaning and group membership coexist through participants finding the experience meaningful and negotiating from a shared base of social expectation. This comparative ethnographic study emphasizes individual experience as the means by which musical process and experience can be understood within the context of voluntary group music making in East Bavaria.
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Hoffman, Simon Paul. "Impacts of housing policy implementation in Wales for housing associations in the capacity of voluntary housing organizations." Thesis, Swansea University, 2007. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42993.
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This study examines some of the impacts of engagement by housing policy on housing associations in Wales. The research concentrates on: housing associations as voluntary housing organizations operating within the Wales voluntary sector; and, the relevance of policy implementation by Wales-national policy institutions for associations acting in this capacity. A background is developed through discussion of accounts of the voluntary sector that provide an insight into: definitional criteria and structural/operational norms for non-profit enterprise; the sector's societal function(s); operational frameworks (i.e. relevant to legal form, regulation, funding and accountability); and weaknesses that arise through the non-profit sector's reliance on government funding. In addition this study discusses aspects of the Wales voluntary sector distinct from the sector in the United Kingdom as a whole. An account is provided of the Wales voluntary sector and its role in public policy implementation, and the statutory framework supporting the sector's operation at Wales-national level. To establish a context for discussing housing associations in Wales there is a review of housing policy, focusing on the period post 1960, including a review of policy implementation in Wales. The primary research for this study is carried out on policy documents relevant to housing policy toward housing associations post 1989 (to include documents published by Tai Cymru as well as the National Assembly for Wales), and by a survey conducted on housing associations and local authorities. The findings from the survey provide insights into the relevance of housing policy and policy engagement on attitudes amongst relevant stakeholders toward housing association status within the Wales-voluntary sector, their role or roles, issues of accountability, and, the influence of Tai Cymru and the National Assembly in these areas. The survey also provides data from housing associations on the relevance and impact of policy implementation under Tai Cymru in three key operational areas, these are: development; rent setting; and, the allocation of housing. The primary research carried out allows conclusions to be drawn on the significance of housing policy implementation by policy institutions in Wales on housing associations having regard to their independence and capacity for operational discretion, and, of the relevance of accounts of the non-profit sector that highlight weaknesses arising from its engagement by public policy.
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Männikkö, Nancy Farm. "Brothers professionally and socially: the rise of local engineering clubs during the Gilded Age." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27847.
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Scholars in the history and sociology of engineering in the United States have commented critically on the unwillingness of twentieth century engineers to participate actively in politics. Alfred Chandler, for example, has noted the absence of engineers in Progressive Era reform movements, while Edwin T. Layton Jr has criticized engineers in the 1920s for an excessive focus on sterile status seeking. This perceived lack of twentieth century engineering activism is especially puzzling given that nineteenth-century American engineers and engineering societies did not hesitate to lobby openly for clean water, smoke abatement, municipal reform, and numerous other issues.Ph. D.
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Grosse, Ingrid. "Political parties and welfare associations." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1466.
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Favell, Margaret Elizabeth, and n/a. "Power, control and accountability in a voluntary organisation : the implications for professional staff and service delivery." University of Otago. Department of Social Work and Community Development, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20071003.101609.
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Over the last decade government policy has transformed many aspects of the welfare state and contracted out to private or voluntary non-government organisations many of the services previously provided by the state. Currently there is very little research on the benefits or disadvantages regarding standards of professional practice and delivery of these services when controlled by voluntary organisations and this research is a case study investigating these concerns.
By using the case study method it is possible to understand issues by incorporating concrete examples of practice within the context that it takes place, as it is only when seen in its proper setting that the general and conceptual significance of practice is understood.
This case study explores the relationships of power, control and accountability in one such non-governmental organisation, the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society and the implications these have for professional staff in the delivery of the service. The study uses the archaeology and genealogy methods suggested by Foucault. Archival material was gained from the Minutes of the meetings of the Plunket executive (1917-1984), constitution and rules. These serve to demonstrate the historical power relationships in the organisation, Plunket nurses� working conditions and how some nurses were treated. The dominant discourse in the archaeology contains two major themes, one being volunteers� autonomous 'ownership' of the organisation, and the other, the subordination of professionalism through the discipline and management of the nursing workforce.
Those same themes are also dominant in the contemporary data studied in the genealogy, which highlights the constraints imposed by volunteer 'ownership' in the contemporary period. It is a feature of the "path dependency" of the organisation that the belief that volunteers had a right to discipline and control the nursing workforce has remained largely unchanged in the contemporary period.
The practice and the context are personalised through interviews with some nurses so that their real-life experiences may give an in-depth understanding of the processes going on for them as professionals. This is one of multiple sources of evidence, including reports, reviews and research, used to triangulate the findings. Through the totality of these methods, insight into Plunket�s decision-making is made possible.
These serve to underline the continuing lack of accountability for service delivery of nonprofessional 'owners' of the voluntary organisation and the negative impact it can have on the delivery of professional services although the greater depth in the contemporary data also highlights two new subsidiary themes; the dominance of lay knowledge over both professional and managerial knowledge, and volunteers� motives for volunteering.
The contemporary interview data demonstrated how the historical culture of the organisation enabled this process to continue through poor workplace conditions, high staff attrition and, in some cases, severe personal pressure akin to workplace bullying.
This study exposes the significance of the culture of organisations, and reveals that the substance of apparent altruistic voluntary organisations may be much more complex and problematic than the ideology would lead us to believe. In a field such as this, where an NGO has sole national responsibility for such an important area and where the outcomes are so poor, change must be considered. While a path dependency explanation is pessimistic about change, it is argued that the only option for professional standards of service for this, and other NGOs, lies in much more accountability and democracy in stakeholder relationships. Recommendations are made in that direction.
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Pivovarová, Blažena. "Bariéry a limity rozvoje mikroregiony Borsko." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-71904.
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The main objective of this thesis is to explore the issue of microregional associations, the center of my interest is the Borsko microregion and the renewal project of the recreational area Bonětice. I am especially interested in how this association is performing since its establishment, how it is pursuing its aims, which projects were implemented by the Borsko microregion, whether it is operating effectively and, ultimately, what barriers and limits the development is facing. To confirm my initial assumptions, I used the survey method. The work is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part I deal with basic concepts and practical part deals with the microregion Borsko. The work also includes socio-economic analysis of microregion Borsko.
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Labigne, Anaël [Verfasser]. "The Attitudinal Dimension of Civility : Voluntary Associations and Their Role in France, Germany and the United States / Anaël Labigne." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1108812422/34.
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Harrison, Carol Elizabeth. "The esprit d'association and the French bourgeoisie : voluntary societies in eastern France, 1830-1870." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670277.
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Clements, Charlotte. "Youth cultures in the mixed economy of welfare : youth clubs and voluntary associations in South London and Liverpool 1958-1985." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/54856/.
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Young people in post-war Britain have grown up in a context of fast-paced change and constant attention; from transformation in state welfare in the 1940s and 1950s, concern about delinquent and subcultural youth in the 1960s and 1970s, and the consequences of recession and youth unemployment in the 1980s. Youth clubs at this time provided a space where young people could figure out myriad influences on their lives and emerging identities. To date, these significant organisations have been woefully under-examined by historians who have largely failed to look at youth groups except in uniformed or religious contexts, or as part of the solution to youth crime. Much practitioner research remains ahistorical in its approach. Early histories of youth movements such as John Springhall’s are being built upon by exciting new interdisciplinary research, for example by Sarah Mills. This thesis contributes to this emerging body of work and restores the place of the youth club in our understandings of youth in the post-war period. This research set out to establish the full range of roles that youth clubs and their membership associations had in the post-war period and how they linked with other forms of voluntarism, welfare and youth provision. Additionally, this research wanted to look at how youth clubs fitted into the lives of young people at a time when their leisure and cultural pursuits were the subject of much scrutiny. In uncovering the complexity and distinctiveness of youth voluntary organisations, local case studies are essential. They allow this research to demonstrate the local factors at work in shaping young lives and youth cultures and provide much-needed evidence about how voluntary service-providing organisations have contributed to the history of voluntarism and welfare in contemporary British history. Papers of clubs and associations held privately and in archives have been complemented by oral history interviews and a range of other sources to examine fully the voluntary youth club in South London and Liverpool. These sources show that clubs were shaped by unique mixes of geography, welfare politics, social issues, international influences, and young people themselves to create spaces for fluid youth cultures and clubs which could blend roles and relationships in order to adapt to local needs and experiences. Youth voluntary organisations were central to networks of youth welfare in London and Liverpool. By looking at how these organisations operated and their relationship with the state, this thesis establishes that voluntary youth clubs were on the frontier of the mixed economy of welfare. They were dynamic in the face of social change and effective in accommodating and responding to the cultural needs of the young consumer in the post-war period. The evidence presented here shows that youth clubs and associations had a pivotal role in helping young people navigate myriad problems. Furthermore, this thesis argues that the category ‘youth’ has concealed the way in which a wide variety of factors such as class, gender, race, and locality have shaped the experiences of young people. Finally, this thesis reveals the crucial role played by a new generation of youth workers, who challenged traditions rooted in uniformed organisations and older youth movements, in embedding permissive and radical approaches in to youth clubs. Ultimately, this thesis argues that the unfixed and contested identity of the youth club could react, respond and adapt to changing welfare, social and cultural pressures. This has given them an undefinable but central status on the very borders of local mixed economies of welfare in South London and Liverpool where the state, voluntary, consumer and cultural were all interconnected to create not only uniquely situated organisations but also micro-local youth cultures. The research presented here contributes to debates about civil society and the making of citizens. It aids understanding of how the category of youth has been constructed and used in wider society in the post-war period. It also adds to our understanding of what welfare provision has looked like and the boundaries between different types of provision. This in turn informs contemporary discussion of who should provide youth and wider welfare services and what forms this should take.
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Engberg, Jan. "Folkrörelserna i välfärdssamhället." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 1986. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-70254.
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Swedish voluntary associations, folkrörelser have been honoredwith a gilt-edged history, a chronicle in need of criticalnuance. Those mass movements which at the time of thebreakthrough of democracy and the welfare society were bearers ofcivic ideals and visions have changed in character and metcompetition from other organizations. Over the years theorganizational sphere as well as its enviroment have evolved intosomething of a completely different nature.The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the communityfunctions of voluntary associations; and to identify theconditions under which voluntary associations are able to promotedifferent political cultures.The analyses prove that voluntary associations in the welfaresociety occupy community functions located between the extremesof a service and a pressure function. Extrapolated to themacro-level they are on the way to a privatist and pluralistsociety, respectively. Few, if any, organizations maintain forcesthat point in the direction of a civil or state society.Organizations push society onto a path leading towards pluralismand individualism, but what does this imply for the developmentof the whole social formation? A variety of forces maycounterbalance the aspirations of voluntary associations. In thewelfare society key emphasis must be placed on what happens whenorganizations meet the challenge imposed by the volumnious growthof the public sector.The capacity of organizations to change the enviroment isdependent on the scale and thoroughness of public intervention:the more extensive government interventionism, the harder it isfor organizations to leave their imprint on the making of apolitical culture. If, however, the integration of the economic,social, and political arenas was to disintegrate or the arenaswere to become softer in their contours, organization potentialswould grow stronger. Voluntary associations are more reactivethan active in political conditions characterized by integratedarenas and government interventionism; reducing publicintervention is a prerequisite for organizations to be able toreshape the political culture.digitalisering@umu
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CARTA, Dario. "“Non più cose ma protagonisti”. L’associazionismo tra gli emigrati italiani in Belgio e Svizzera, 1945-‐2001. Il caso di Bruxelles e Ginevra." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/28979.
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This research presents an historical comparative analysis (1945-2001) of Italian migrants’ associations in two Europe’s country: Belgium and Geneva. The research compares the associative practices of Italians in Brussels and Geneva, it focuses on the importance of immigrant organisations. Such organisations are not only important for the immigrants themselves, but also for their participation and integration into the host society. Immigrants set up organisations to create, express and maintain a collective identity. Using examples from specific types of organisation (mutual benefit societies, religious groups, hometown associations, political groups, cultural associations) we examine the factors that shape immigrants’ formal sociability. We can thus see what differences were made important by whom, for whom, and for how long. The information gathered in this way can only be assessed if we know what factors influence the founding and continuation of organisations, and how this influence works. The study focus on how and why immigrant organisations originate, and how they manage to survive and change over time. The study demonstrates the strength of ethnically based organizations to be an especially powerful determinant of the likelihood of ethnic collective action. The essay approaches the topic from a historical perspective to show how quasi-universal processes on the one hand, and local and temporal specificities on the other, shaped associational practices in a way that transcended the ethno-national traditions and characteristics of particular immigrant groups and host countries.
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Callejas, Linda M. "Contemporary Afro-Cuban Voices in Tampa: Reclaiming Heritage in “America’s Next Greatest City”." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3570.
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This dissertation presents findings from ethnographic research conducted with members of the Sociedad La Unión Martí-Maceo, established by segregated Black Cuban cigar workers in Ybor City in 1904. For decades, Tampa officials have initiated numerous urban revitalization projects aimed at developing a world-class tourist destination and metropolitan center. Often, these efforts have centered on highlighting the ethnic history of Ybor City, from which the participation of Black Cubans and the Martí-Maceo Society have been actively excluded or ignored. The main issues related to contemporary Afro- Cuban identity in Tampa and which will be examined in my dissertation, include the changing nature of the Afro-Cuban community in Tampa in light of increases in migration of Cubans and other Latinos of color to the area; Martí-Maceo members’ struggle to reclaim an Afro-Cuban heritage within Tampa’s larger historic preservation efforts over the past decade; and an examination of the Martí-Maceo Society as a voluntary association that appears to have outlived its usefulness in present-day Tampa despite efforts by elderly members to sustain and expand it.
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Myrberg, Gunnar. "Medlemmar och medborgare : Föreningsdeltagande och politiskt engagemang i det etnifierade samhället." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8157.
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What is the political significance of affiliation with voluntary associations for people with and without foreign backgrounds in Sweden? Does associational affiliation offer an opportunity to influence the political decision-making process for those otherwise disfavoured in terms of political resources? Or does it rather aggravate the political marginalisation of people with foreign backgrounds? This thesis is based on two large-scale surveys that have been designed explicitly to deal with questions of this sort. It is shown that there are substantial differences in associational affiliation between people with and without foreign backgrounds. Interestingly, these differences are strongly correlated with patterns of ethnification and ethnic discrimination in Swedish society. Individuals who have migrated to Sweden from Western Europe and North America participate in voluntary associations to the same extent as native Swedes. In contrast, the levels of associational affiliation are consistently lower among people who have migrated to Sweden from other parts of the world, even controlling for age, education, occupation and other potentially important factors. The study supports the widely held notion that there is a positive causal relation between associational affiliation and political participation. However, this seems to be true only with regard to certain forms of political participation and only seldom to such an extent that differences in associational affiliation can be said to strongly affect the relative levels of political engagement of people with and without foreign backgrounds. In particular, the observed differences in associational affiliation seem to have little to do with the often debated marginalisation of immigrants in the electoral arena.Etnisk organisering och politisk integration i storstaden
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Orozco, Cynthia E. "Beyond Machismo, La Familia, and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Histo riography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870 1990." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624817.
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Boonshoft, Mark. "Creating a `Civilized Nation’: Religion, Social Capital, and the Cultural Foundations of Early American State Formation." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429781475.
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Křížková, Markéta. "Efektivnost spolupráce obcí v poskytování environmentálních služeb v oblasti odpadového hospodářství." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193135.
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Municipalities within their jurisdiction must provide their citizens with a range of services which are often very financial demanding for many of them and are a heavy burden on their local budgets. In addition, in this area municipalities are also imposed to a number of conditions and objectives defined by the basic documents for waste management in the Czech Republic. One possible solution to these problems is to provide services through intermunicipal-cooperation. In this thesis there are analyzed the possibilities of using this form of service provision in the area of waste management in the Czech Republic. The first part is an introduction to this topic, defining the fundamental objectives specified in the Waste Management Plan and other official documents, legal conditions for cooperation between municipalities and a summary of foreign experience with the cooperation of municipalities. In the practical part these findings are tested through a questionnaire survey on the real experiences of existing unions in the Czech Republic, which shows that inter-municipal cooperation is not in our circumstances sufficiently and comprehensively utilized; the municipalities leave most of the competencies on themselves. To improve this situation could help more effective state support and change of certain legal conditions.
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Klarer, Alexander. "Quantitative Untersuchung über Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft in Österreich." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/7088/1/Klarer_Alexander_01352846%2D1.pdf.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Gründungstrends bei neu gegründeten Vereinen in Österreich von 2006-2017. Vereine haben ihre Anfänge zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie sind in Österreich die häufigste Rechtsform für Organisationen im Bereich der Zivilgesellschaft. In der
vorliegenden Arbeit werden mithilfe von Text-Mining-Verfahren die Namen neu gegründeter Vereine analysiert. Anschließend werden Kategorien gebildet und anhand der vorkommenden Worthäufigkeiten Trends dargestellt. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass im gesamten
Untersuchungszeitraum diverse Förderungsvereine, Vereine in den Bereichen Kunst und Kultur sowie Sparvereine zu den häufigsten Neugründungen zählten. Zudem wird ersichtlich, dass Neugründungstrends oftmals mit politischen und gesellschaftlichen Vorgängen zusammenhängen.Series: Working Papers / Institute for Nonprofit Management
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Eriksson, Alexander, Daniel Medén, and Tobias Pettersson. ""Det är ju ändå min förening" : En kvalitativ studie om vad som motiverar styrelsemedlemmar att arbeta ideellt." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27941.
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Ideellt engagemang inom idrott har enligt studier kommit att bli ett problem då det blivit svårare för idrottsföreningar att rekrytera och bibehålla sina volontärer. Faktorer som betungande arbetsuppgifter och tidsbrist är några av de orsaker som påtalats kring det problem som finns med ideellt engagemang. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad det är som påverkar motivationen hos styrelsemedlemmar att arbeta ideellt. Vi har hämtat inspiration från grundad teori och utfört åtta stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer med styrelsemedlemmar i olika ideella fotbollsföreningar för att komma fram till resultatet för vår studie. Då vi endast hämtat inspiration från grundad teori har studien kompletterats med ett teoriavsnitt för att stärka analysen av vår empiriska data. Efter dessa åtta intervjuer upplevde vi en mättnad då svaren inte ledde till någon ny information. Med den insamlade datan framkom det fem stycken kategorier som påverkar dessa styrelsemedlemmars motivation att engagera sig ideellt. De fem kategorier som framställts i vår studie resulterade i en kärnkategori som vi ansåg vara mer framträdande och fyra underkategorier som alla har ett samband med vår kärnkategori. Kärnkategorin benämns i denna studie som koppling till föreningen. Vi har i studien funnit dessa kategorier som avgörande faktorer för vad det är som gör att styrelsemedlemmar ställer upp och arbetar ideellt för ideella fotbollsföreningar. Underkategorierna som vi har identifierat är gemenskap, barn och ungdomar, uppmärksammande samt föreningens överlevnad.Volunteering in sport has, according to studies, become a problem as it becomes harder for sports associations to recruit and maintain their volunteers. Factors such as burdensome tasks and lack of time are some of the reasons that have been raised about the problem of volunteering. The purpose of this study is to investigate what is affecting the motivation of board members to work voluntarily. We have obtained inspiration from grounded theory and conducted eight semistructured interviews with board members in various non-profit organisations to achieve the results of our study. As we only obtained inspiration from grounded theory, the study has been supplemented with a theory section to strengthen the analysis of our empirical data. After these eight interviews we experienced a saturation in our empirical data as the answers did not lead to any new information. With the collected data, we identified five categories that affect the motivation of these board members to work voluntarily. The five categories produced in our study resulted in a core category that we considered to be more prominent than the others, and four subcategories, all of which are related to our core category. The core category is referred to in this study as "connection to the organisation". In this study we have found these categories to be crucial factors for what makes members of the board work voluntarily for non-profit organisations. The subcategories that we have identified are solidarity, children and youth, noticing and the survival of the association. This study is based on Swedish conditions.
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Brown, Rebekah A. S. "The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274.
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DENNIS, STEPHEN RICHARD. "VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP OF OUTDOOR RECREATIONISTS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184018.
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Social researchers have independently investigated behaviors in voluntary association membership and participation in outdoor recreation activities. A small amount of scholarly work has theorized a link between activity in voluntary associations and recreation behavior. These studies have concentrated on the associational affiliations of outdoor recreationists, and their concern for the environment. The purpose of this study was to determine if differences exist between outdoor recreationists who are members of environmental/outdoor recreation voluntary associations, and those who are nonmembers. Organizational membership was designated as the dependent variable. Independent variables were designed to assess (1) incentives for voluntary association membership, (2) motivations for participation in outdoor recreation activities, (3) environmental concern, and (4) social class. A random sample of outdoor recreationists was drawn from the California membership of a large recreational equipment cooperative (R.E.I. Co-op). Data were collected by mail survey. Of the 1500 questionnaires sent, thirty-four were undeliverable, and 1085 were returned for a response rate of 74.0 percent. The sample reflected a substantially higher organizational membership level than the general population with a forty percent membership rate. Members were differentiated from nonmembers by significantly higher ratings on (1) instrumental incentives (public goods) for membership in voluntary associations, (2) intellectual motivations for participation in outdoor recreation, (3) environmental concern, and (4) age and education level. A discriminant function analysis identified instrumental incentives as the most powerful predictor of organizational membership. Results indicated public goods are a primary incentive for outdoor recreationists to join voluntary associations. This suggests a need to re-define instrumental benefits in light of the personal values associated with them. A common thread of intellectual pursuit distinguished members from nonmembers. Intellectual motivations for outdoor recreation, education level, age and environmental concern provided evidence that members are somewhat more oriented toward intellectual development, suggesting that environmental and outdoor recreation-related voluntary associations might benefit from focusing on the educational benefits of membership, and directing promotional communications through channels used by outdoor recreationists. Given the findings of a strong relationship between outdoor recreation and voluntary association membership, further scholarly work should concentrate on the instrumental and intellectual benefits of both behaviors to promote understanding of their synergy.
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Kasíková, Jana. "Spolky a neziskový sektor v Československu 1945 - 1948 (1951)." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205701.
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This thesis describes the non-profit sector in Czechoslovakia in 1945 - 1951 period. In this pivotal period, the independent non-profit organizations were partly revived during the post-war reconstruction, but they have been gradually limited by the state pressure, aiming to achieve their ultimate liquidation. This study examines the causes and transformation tools of the NGO sector until its abolition, as well as their subordination to direct government oversight. This work views the topic especially in terms of financial and managerial aspects of the organizations during this period. Due to the fact that this is an unexplored issue, the theoretical knowledge related to the topic is presented first, and the terminology and legislative developments of this type of organization are subsequently clarified. The practical part uses the example of three socially oriented associations: YMCA, Czechoslovak Red Cross and Charita (Caritas), their specific economic issues and the examples of contemporary management.
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Netolická, Zuzana. "Využití registru svazků obcí pro investiční účely." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265364.
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This thesis focuses on the analysis and the use of the register of voluntary associations of municipalities. The theoretical part of the work is focused on defining the cooperation of municipalities, namely voluntary associations of municipalities, and funding op-portunities for public investment. The practical part deals with the analysis of public associations of municipalities of the South Moravian region, which was part of a specific research. They are then matched funding options selected project independent community through the voluntary association of municipalities.
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Haase, Sarah. "Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement im Wandel – Deutsch-französische Vereine (1989-2013) als soziales Kapital und ihr Nutzen im transnationalen Raum." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA040.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'engagement de la société civile dans les relations franco-allemandes entre 1989 et 2013, avec une ouverture portant jusqu'à l'année 2017. Son objectif est d'étudier le rôle, l'organisation et le caractère transnational de six initiatives franco-allemandes face à l'intégration européenne et à la mondialisation. Tout en démontrant l'importance de l'engagement citoyen, cette thèse s'interroge sur la place de la relation franco-allemande dans nos sociétés actuelles. L'interdisciplinarité du travail nécessite la mobilisation de plusieurs méthodes de recherche. L'exploitation des archives propres à chaque association se révèle particulièrement importante, pour pouvoir illustrer l'évolution des initiatives citoyennes sur la base de données empiriques. Dans un premier temps, l'analyse procède par catégories : (1) communication, (2) conception des programmes/orientation thématique, (3) réseautage et (4) professionnalisation/potentiel d'innovation. Ensuite, la thèse explore l'importance du capital social individuel (Bourdieu) des personnalités clés au sein d'une association ainsi que le capital social collectif (Putnam) généré par ces associations. Les relations que les associations entretiennent au sein du réseau franco-allemand et les liens qu'entretiennent les personnages clés avec d'autres acteurs situés en dehors de cet espace binational sont deux éléments importants pour la visibilité, le poids et l'utilité sociale des initiatives (Gadrey). Enfin, le travail pose la question de savoir si ces associations constituent des hétérotopies (Foucault) qui suscitent un habitus particulier tout en créant une conscience franco-allemande. Ainsi, cette thèse s'emploie à démontrer l'importance d'un réseau associatif transnationalThis thesis discusses the civil society engagement in the relationship between France and Germany between 1989 and 2013, with an outlook until 2017. Its objective is to study the role, the organisation and the transnational character of six Franco-German associations in the face of European integration and globalisation. By showing the importance of civil society engagement, this thesis questions the place of the Franco-German relationship in our contemporary society. The multidisciplinarity of this thesis demands the application of different methodological approaches. The analysis of empirical data through the examination of the associations' archives is particularly important in order to show the development of the initiatives. First, the material is analysed by the categories (1) communication, (2) program conception/main topics, (3) networking and (4) professionalization/innovation potential, which reveal different challenges such as the ageing of the members. Then, the thesis explores the importance of individual social capital (Bourdieu) for an association disposed by key personalities as well as the collective social capital (Putnam) generated by these associations. Not only the relations the associations are maintaining within the Franco-German network but also the connections key personalities have outside of the binational space are important for the visibility, wages and social utility of the initiatives (Gadrey). Finally, the thesis asks if these associations could be characterized as heterotopy (Foucault), which evokes a particular habitus by creating a Franco-German self-conception. The analysis therefore attempts to show the importance of a transnational association network
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Peter, Sascha A. [Verfasser], and Petra [Akademischer Betreuer] Böhnke. "Voluntarily Disconnected? A Cross-national and Longitudinal Study on Gender Differentials in Voluntary Association Participation / Sascha A. Peter ; Betreuer: Petra Böhnke." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1124591311/34.
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Sandberg, Per. "En förening i förändring : om idrottsföreningar på landsbygden och deras utmaningar i ett postmodernt samhälle." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-79017.
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I denna uppsats redovisas en studie av hur svenska idrottsföreningar på landsbygden påverkas av de samhällsförändringar som intåget i det postmoderna samhället har medfört. Det studerade datamaterialet har samlats in genom kvalitativa intervjuer och därefter analyserats genom forskningsmetoden grundad teori. De informanter som deltagit i studien är alla själva verksamma inom idrottsklubbar på små orter, och denna uppsats ger en inblick i deras erfarenheter som förhoppningsvis kan bidra till en ökad kunskap om hur svenska idrottsföreningar på landsbygden kan komma att utvecklas inom de närmaste åren. Resultaten avslöjar att de studerade föreningarna upplever stora problem vid rekryteringen av såväl nya medlemmar som ideellt engagerade tränare och styrelseledamöter. Dessutom påvisar studien en pågående konflikt mellan stad och landsbygd som i synnerhet berör resursfördelning och politisk prioritering.In this thesis, a study of how Swedish sports associations in rural areas are affected by the societal changes which the advent of the post-modern society has brought is declared. The studied data has been collected through qualitative interviews and thenceforth analyzed through the research method grounded theory. The informants who have participated in the study are all active in sports clubs in small villages themselves, and this thesis provides an insight in their experiences which hopefully can contribute to an increased knowledge about how Swedish sports associations in rural areas may develop in the next few years. The results reveal that the studied sports clubs experience severe problems in the recruitment of new members as well as voluntary trainers and members of the board. Moreover, the study proves an ongoing conflict between urban and rural areas which in particular concerns allocation of resources and political priority.
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Yeghicheyan, Jennifer. "Accueillir et contenir : les « familles », entre bénévolat et marché : enquête sur une périphérie carcérale." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MON30004/document.
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Dans le contexte français d'ouverture du monde pénitentiaire et de développement des partenariats associatifs, les premiers « accueils des familles » voient le jour au cours des années 1980. Des bénévoles prennent l'initiative d'améliorer les conditions de visite au parloir en proposant un accueil pour les proches des personnes détenues. Depuis 2010, sollicitée par le principe d'« humanisation » des prisons prôné par les Règles Pénitentiaires Européennes, l'administration prend ce service d'accueil à sa charge en le délégant à des sociétés prestataires dans les établissements à « gestion mixte », publique et privée, sans pour autant exclure les associations.À la croisée de l'anthropologie et de la sociologie, à travers une ethnographie de longue durée menée au sein de lieux périphériques du domaine carcéral, la thèse interroge les politiques institutionnelles et les pratiques participatives des associations. Au prisme de leurs différentes matrices - compassionnelle, gestionnaire et sécuritaire - cette recherche analyse les processus de politisation et de fabrication symbolique des divers sujets (collectifs et individuels) impliqués. Elle étudie également les enjeux sociaux relevant de la « carcéralisation » d'espaces publics et de la « publicisation » d'espaces carcérauxIn the French context of prison's opening up and developing partnerships with associations, first “Families Welcome” began in the 1980's. Volunteers take the initiative to create reception facilities for inmates' relatives when they come to the prison visiting room. Since 2010, in order to respect European Prison Rules, penitentiary administration handed over this service to the joint management of private and public companies, without excluding associations.Between anthropology and sociology, through long-term ethnography within this prison's periphery, this thesis raises questions about institutional practices and participatory dimension of associations. Through several models – compassion, management, and security – this research analyses the politicisation process and symbolic construction of the different subjects implicated (collective and individual). It also studies social issues relevant to the “carceralisation”, of public places and the publicity of prison facilities
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Nobis, Tina. "Politische Sozialisationsleistungen von Freiwilligenvereinigungen." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16551.
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Bezugnehmend auf die kontrovers diskutierten Krisenszenarien einer zunehmend politikdistanzierten Jugendgeneration, wurden in den letzten Jahren immer wieder Fragen nach den Möglichkeiten einer Re-Integration politischer Gemeinschaften thematisiert. Dabei avancierten gerade zivilgesellschaftliche Assoziationen im vorpolitischen Raum zu potenziellen Hoffnungsträgern für die Re-Integration politischer Gemeinschaften. Über die Beteiligung in Freiwilligenvereinigungen könnten sich gerade Jugendliche in ihrer Rolle des „mündigen Bürgers“ üben und „Demokratie im Kleinen“ erproben. Diese inzwischen durchaus kontrovers und differenziert diskutieren Annahmen werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit systematisch aufgearbeitet und in einem darauf aufbauenden Schritt mit empirischen Daten konfrontiert. Über Sekundäranalysen einschlägiger Surveys wird speziell für das Jugendalter recherchiert, welchen Erklärungsbeitrag die Beteiligung in Sportvereinen, kulturellen Vereinigungen, kirchlichen Gruppen und der freiwilligen Feuerwehr für den Erwerb von politischen Orientierungen und Verhaltensweisen leisten kann, welche Kompetenzen auf diesem Wege überhaupt erworben werden, welche Bedeutung den Kontexten der Partizipation in diesem Zusammenhang zukommt und welche weiteren Einflussgrößen zu berücksichtigen sind.The ongoing debate on the citizens’ growing disenchantment with politics often focusses on political attitudes of adolescents. However, an increasing number of publications also address ways of political re-integration. Here, voluntary associations are perceived as schools of democracies that contribute to adolescents’ political socialization. It is claimed that membership in these associations induces civic mindedness, promotes positive feelings towards democracy and fosters political participation. This dissertation examines these assumptions: It gives an overview of the literature and empirically tests socialization mechanisms. Based on a secondary analysis of different surveys it is asked which particular political attitudes are socialized by the membership in voluntary associations. In addition, it is examined which types of voluntary associations contribute to political socialization. Furthermore, the dissertation also addresses the question if effects arise from active membership within these organizations and if selection effects account for correlations between associational membership and political attitudes.
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Harmsen, Egbert. "Islam, civil society and social work Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan between patronage and empowerment = Islam, maatschappelijk middenveld en sociale zorg Gezaghebbende teksten, rituele praktijken en sociale identiteiten : Particuliere Islamitische welzijnsorganisaties in Jordanië tussen bevoogding en ontvoogding, met een samenvatting in het Nederlands /." Leiden : ISIM : Amsterdam University Press, 2008. http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=224150.
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Nazareth, Cyril. "La socialisation des jeunes des quartiers populaires par le football de compétition." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0167.
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Cette thèse repose sur une enquête ethnographique menée dans deux clubs de football du département français de la Seine-Saint-Denis (93). Le matériau collecté a permis de documenter un espace de formation des jeunes footballeurs amateurs encore peu étudié. Ce travail propose de mettre en regard les croyances en un avenir sportif d’excellence et les probabilités de concrétisation de celles-ci. Les trajectoires sociales des jeunes étudiés s’inscrivent dans un espace hiérarchisé qui correspond à l’un des principaux bassins de recrutement des apprentis footballeurs professionnels français : la région parisienne concentre une masse de prétendants à la consécration de leur virtuosité technique et tactique. Dans ce cadre, la présence d’institutions footballistiques d’élite participe au processus d’identification des jeunes et de leurs encadrants au monde du football professionnel. L’étude des stratégies parentales de réussite des enfants, des sociabilités masculines, mais aussi du travail d’encadrement assuré par les éducateurs, éclaire les ressorts sociaux de l’investissement dans la compétition sportive. Cette recherche montre que l’engagement dans ce processus de sélection recouvre des aspirations à la respectabilité de membres des classes populairesThis PhD dissertation is based on an ethnographic study of two football clubs located in the French département of Seine-Saint-Denis. The data gathered made it possible to document an understudied training space for young amateur football players. This research sought to confront the players’ aspirations in a future of excellence in the sport to the probabilities of their realization. The teenagers’ social trajectories studied in this dissertation unfold in a hierarchical space, one of the main recruitment pools for French professional football apprentices: the Paris region, which is home to a mass of competitors striving for the recognition of their technical and tactical virtuosity. In this context, elite football institutions participate in shaping how teenage football players and their coaches identify themselves with the professional football world. The study of parental strategies for children's success, of masculine sociability, as well as that of the mentoring work carried out by educators, all shed light on the social factors underlying a commitment to sport competition. The research shows how such commitment in the competitive process of selection implicates a quest for respectability among this working-class youth
Esta tesis se basa en una encuesta etnográfica llevada a cabo en dos clubs de fútbol del departamento francés de Seine-Saint-Denis (93). Los datos colectados permitieron comprender un espacio de formación para jóvenes futbolistas amateurs que aún no había sido estudiado. Este trabajo propone estudiar las creencias en un porvenir deportivo de excelencia que tiene pocas probabilidades objetivas de concretarse. Las trayectorias sociales de los jóvenes estudiados en la tesis se inscriben en un espacio jerarquizado que corresponde a una de las principales canteras de reclutamiento de aprendices futbolistas profesionales: la región parisina concentra muchos aspirantes a la consagración de su talento técnico y táctico. En este contexto, la presencia de instituciones futbolísticas de élite participa en el proceso de identificación de los jóvenes y de sus educadores con los actores del fútbol profesional. El estudio de las estrategias educativas de éxito de las sociabilidades masculinas, pero también del trabajo de los educadores, pone de relieve los fundamentos sociales de la implicación en la competición deportiva. La tesis muestra que el compromiso de los jóvenes en el proceso de selección refleja las aspiraciones a la respetabilidad de los miembros de las clases populares