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A Review of Deviant Voluntary Associations
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44647-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 66 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 141 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Voluntaristics Review

Voluntary associations (VAs) are the oldest and most frequent type of groups in the charitable, voluntary, nonprofit, third, or civil society sector worldwide. Smith’s book reviews the positive long-term historical impacts of some fundamentally deviant VAs (DVAs) or dark side examples of such associations. Dissenting DVAs such as the American Anti-Slavery Society in the 1800s and the National Woman’s Party in the early 1900s worked long and effectively to foster U.S. socio-cultural progress and ethical evolution as part of the global rights revolution. Parallel Noxious DVAs like the German Nazi Party or Heaven’s Gate mass suicide cult had opposite, deeply harmful impacts. Eccentric DVAs like nudist/naturist clubs or Oneida free-love commune (mid-1800s) were largely harmless hobbies, with little harmful impact.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, David Horton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Über Autor(innen)

David Horton SMITH, PhD (1965, Harvard) is Research-Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College. His bio is one of only 40 living persons among 139 from all countries and all history honored in the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (Springer 2010).