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Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences, 2022 Sporting mega-events improve local economy, affect political processes, and develop such non-commercial sector as volunteering. The article examines the attitude of volunteers to the legacy of such sporting mega-events as Olympic or Paralympic Games.
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On the Volunteers and Volunteering
Creative Education, 2020 The project mentioned below is aimed at the study of a possibility and forms of the civic volunteers’ participation in a mitigation or prediction of modern natural and environmental disasters in Russia. Such participation is necessary taking into account the huge size of its territory and variety of natural and built landscape as well as of types of ...
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The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1999 JOHN WILSON [*] MARC MUSICK [**] I INTRODUCTION To most people, a "volunteer" is someone who contributes time to helping others with no expectation of pay or other material benefit to herself. However, this does not mean that volunteer work is of no consequence for the volunteer.
Wilson, John, Musick, Marc
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The Unexpected Volunteer [PDF]
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine, 2020 In this narrative account, the author, a medical student, describes his encounters with several inpatients at a community hospital. He becomes acquainted with a patient's son, who, initially withdrawn, over the course of his mother's hospitalizations transforms into a compassionate volunteer. This change is made especially evident when the author meets
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Volunteers are not Volunteering to Sacrifice their Objectives
Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 2023 The retention of volunteers is a worldwide growing concern for non-profit organizations. It is relatively less explored in third-world countries, where working styles, norms, cultural issues, the attitude of people toward social causes, and labor policies are different from those in developed nations.
Muhammad Arshad +3 more
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Volunteer Frame and Volunteer Culture
Ewha Journal of Social Sciences, 2011 한국사회의 경제적 위기와 함께 사회복지의 욕구는 증가하였으나, 사회적 안정망 구축이 아직 충분하지 않은 현실에서 시민사회의 역할의 중요성이 부각되기 시작했다. 본 연구는 심리학의 ``프레임(frame)`` 개념을 원용하여 자원봉사운동을 활성화하고 자원봉사문화를 조성하는 방법을 탐색하는 이론적 관점을 제시하고자 한다.
null Kim,Kyong-Dong, null 김여진
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Reciprocity and volunteering [PDF]
Rationality and Society, 2014 This paper evaluates whether volunteering is imbued with altruistic or strategic reciprocity. Although scholars have intensively studied the motivations and social norms to volunteer, to date there is no agreement why human beings perform activities in which time is freely given up in order to benefit another person, group or organization.
Manatschal, Anita, Freitag, Markus
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To volunteer or not to volunteer? A cross-country study of volunteering
, 2011 This paper uses data from the 4th wave of the European Values Survey (EVS) to inves- tigate the factors that in uence the decision to participate in volunteering activities, con- sidering both volunteering in general as well as volunteering in particular types of activities.
SARDINHA, BOGUSLAWA MARIA BARSZCZAK +1 more
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Active Volunteers & Volunteering in the Curriculum
, 2009 CETL Briefing Paper.
Green, Patricia, Cureton, Debra
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