Nonprofits Daring to Be Different as Moral Dark Energy Improving the World

A Review of Deviant Voluntary Associations

David Horton Smith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

74 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
9789004446472 (ISBN)

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Reviews historical impacts of some Deviant Voluntary Associations (DVAs) as moral dark energy. Dissenting DVAs, like the American Anti-Slavery Society (mid-1800s) and National Woman’s Party (early 1900s), worked effectively fostering U.S. socio-cultural progress and ethical evolution in global rights revolution.

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.

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).

Nonprofits Daring to Be Different as Moral Dark Energy Improving the World: A Review of Deviant Voluntary Associations

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Editor’s Introduction to VR 5.1: Collective Associational Deviance versus Sociological/Political Science and Criminological Perspectives on Social Movement Associations

1 Intellectual Background

2 Noxious Deviant Voluntary Associations

3 Dissenting Deviant Voluntary Associations

4 Eccentric Deviant Voluntary Associations

5 Dissenting DVA s as the Moral Dark Energy of the Nonprofit Sector

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Author Biography

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	Voluntaristics Review ; 22
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	141 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9789004446472 / 9789004446472
Zustand	Neuware