Doing good when times are bad: volunteering behaviour in economic hard times

Lim, Chaeyoon; Laurence, James

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12122

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“…His willingness to do this reflects a discourse that the young have become less altruistic. In contrast to Putnam's speculation on the impact of economic depression promoting volunteering, Lim and Laurence (2015) found that informal and formal volunteering declined after the UK 2008 recession. This was most apparent in informal volunteering, and in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with a weaker civic organizational infrastructure and lower cultural norms of trust.…”

Section: Explaining Volunteering By the Effects Of Values Circumstancontrasting

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Talking ’bout my generation: generational differences in the attitudes of volunteers at the 2012 Olympic Games

Nichols

Ralston²

2016

Voluntary Sector Review

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This article assesses whether the values underpinning the motivations to volunteer of older and younger people are different. It does this through in-depth interviews with 38 volunteers at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Analysis using the framework of the psychological contract and narrative biographies distinguished between value led and market led motives. An initial coding of interviews showed that older volunteers were more likely to express altruistic values and younger volunteers' motivations were related to improving their employability. However, this age-dichotomy became less distinct as qualitative analysis demonstrated how the older volunteers were also motivated by self-interest in certain ways. In particular, a motivation to express a self-identity as a 'volunteer' led them to continue volunteering despite other rewards not being present. The analysis illustrates the interplay of values, circumstances and experience in influencing motivations to volunteer, and thus the difficulty in making generalisations about differences in values between generations.

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Section: Explaining Volunteering By the Effects Of Values Circumstancontrasting

confidence: 68%

Talking ’bout my generation: generational differences in the attitudes of volunteers at the 2012 Olympic Games

Nichols

Ralston²

2016

Voluntary Sector Review

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“…However, we now live in different times and the current economic crisis was not as deep. We might also wonder whether citizens in European societies in the late 00s with higher standards of living and where citizens are by and large insulated-even amongst the most resource-poor groups-by the most pernicious economic consequences through various social safety nets would suffer as much as US citizens in the late 1920s (Lim and Laurence 2015). A more recent study with data from the America's Barometer showed that there was a significant decline in social trust between 2006 and 2010 and that negative evaluations of personal and national economic situations were associated with a lower level of trust (Zizumbo-Colunga et al 2010).…”

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“…A more recent study with data from the America's Barometer showed that there was a significant decline in social trust between 2006 and 2010 and that negative evaluations of personal and national economic situations were associated with a lower level of trust (Zizumbo-Colunga et al 2010). Lim and Laurence (2015) found that volunteering declined in the current crisis in the UK and US. Hall (1999) had also suggested that the decline in trust in the UK in the early 1980s was probably linked to economic insecurity, experiences of unemployment and pessimism for the economy emerging from the 1980 to 1982 crisis.…”

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“…As such, the question remains open as to whether unemployed people suffer from lower volunteering and social participation to those in employment and to what extent. During economic crises, people might feel more financially insecure and thus spend more hours on the job to ensure that they do not become unemployed (Lim and Laurence 2015). This would be particularly true of those in manual occupations, as such we would expect to see inequalities in social activism by social class.…”

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Relative deprivation and inequalities in social and political activism

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In this paper we analyse whether relative deprivation has divergent effects on different types of social and political action. We expect that it will depress volunteering with parties as well as different types of conventional political participation more generally while stimulating volunteering with anti-cuts organisations and engagement in various kinds of protest activism. There is little research into how relative deprivation impacts on different types of social and political action from the wide range of activities available to citizens in contemporary democracies as well as into how this relationship might vary based on the wider economic context. While many studies construct scales, we examine participation in specific activities and associations, such as parties or anti-cuts organisations, voting, contacting, demonstrating and striking to show that deprivation has divergent effects that depart from what is traditionally argued. We apply random effects models with cross-level interactions utilizing an original cross-national European dataset collected in 2015 (N = 17,667) within a collaborative funded-project. We show that a negative economic context has a mobilizing effect by both increasing the stimulating effect of relative deprivation on protest activism as well as by closing or reversing the gap between resource-poor and resource-rich groups for volunteering with parties and voting.

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“…Commentators across both sides of the Atlantic bemoan the emergence of a "Lost Generation" of youth. As citizens try to cope with the effects of negative economic conditions, attention has also been drawn to the potential social and political effects of the recession (Bermeo & Bartels, 2014;Clarke & Heath, 2014;Giugni & Grasso, 2015c;Lim & Laurence, 2015). One type of possible negative effect of economic hardship is the decline of activism and protest around "new" issues such as the environment as individuals return to bread-and-butter issues in times of economic crisis (Giugni & Grasso, 2015a).…”

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Do Issues Matter? Anti-Austerity Protests’ Composition, Values, and Action Repertoires Compared

Grasso¹,

Giugni²

2016

Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. . Grasso and Marco GiugniABSTRACT An important wave of anti-austerity protests has swept across Western Europe in recent years. We can thus distinguish between three different types of protest occurring in Western Europe recently: "old" issue protests, relating to the trade union and labor movement; "new" issue protests, relating to culture and identity issues; anti-austerity protests, emerging directly in reaction to austerity measures and cuts enacted in the current period. Following previous literature, we hypothesize that anti-austerity protests have attracted a new constituency to the streets and that they will be different from both "old" and "new" protests in terms of their social composition, value orientations, and action repertoires. We expect anti-austerity protesters to be on the whole younger, and in more precarious working conditions, to be more concerned with economic over social issues, but also to be considerably less institutionalized and embedded in organizational networks, and to have fewer experiences of previous extra-institutional participation. We test these hypotheses by analyzing a unique and novel dataset containing data from over 10,000 protestors from 72 demonstrations (2009À2013). Our results lend broad support to our hypotheses with the exception of the idea that "precarity" forms a new social base for anti-austerity protests.

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Doing good when times are bad: volunteering behaviour in economic hard times

Cited by 49 publications

References 18 publications

Talking ’bout my generation: generational differences in the attitudes of volunteers at the 2012 Olympic Games

Talking ’bout my generation: generational differences in the attitudes of volunteers at the 2012 Olympic Games

Relative deprivation and inequalities in social and political activism

Do Issues Matter? Anti-Austerity Protests’ Composition, Values, and Action Repertoires Compared

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