Volunteering in the United Kingdom

The Spirit of Service

John Mohan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4551-2 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them. -- .

Substantial claims are made about the extent and impacts of volunteering, often characterised by limited engagement with research evidence. Volunteering is highly stratified, so whether it can bridge social divisions in an unequal society is questionable. Volunteering may have some benefits for individuals and communities, but these impacts are often marginal; volunteering is not a treatment that can be prescribed with certainty. There is certainly a strong ‘spirit of service’ evident in the British population, but it requires considerable faith to believe that it can be extended to all. This book provides a comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering, underpinning a novel, but sceptical, assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society. -- .

John Mohan is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. -- .

Introduction

Part I Frameworks

1 Concepts and definitions: hunting Snarks and ‘mapping volunteerland’
2 Trends in voluntary action

Part II Contours

Introduction to Part II
3 Diversity and inequality in voluntary action
4 Core and periphery
5 Community-level variations in voluntary action: places don’t volunteer, people do
6 Circumstances, habits and trajectories: journeys into and through volunteering

Part III Impacts

Introduction to Part III
7 Do not expect miracles: the impacts of voluntary action
8 Volunteering, employability and policy
9 Volunteering, health and well-being
10 Volunteering and civic engagement

Part IV Changing contexts

Introduction to Part IV
11 Demographic change, economic circumstances and attitudes to volunteering
12 Cultivating and conserving the spirit of service
13 COVID-19 and voluntary action

Conclusions: Beveridge and the spirit of service
References
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	13 graphs and 5 tables
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-5261-4551-0 / 1526145510
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-4551-2 / 9781526145512
Zustand	Neuware