Self-Interest and Volunteerism: Analysis of a Statewide Association

Passewitz, Gregory R.; Donnermeyer, Joseph F.

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“…One would expect parents' direct involvement in social organizations to strongly influence children's social activities. Parental social participation is often motivated in part by self-interest, such as a desire for power, prestige, connections, and other rewards that may result from group affiliation (Passewitz and Donnermeyer 1989;Rouse and Clawson 1992). It is also likely, however, to indicate a belief in the importance of social participation for community welfare (Allen and Gibson 1987).…”

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Family Influences on the Social Participation of Youth: The Effects of Parental Social Involvement and Farming

Chan

Elder

2001

Rural Sociology

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Parents shape children's social choices through their social and economic actions. Parental social participation connects children to a civic culture and encourages involvement in civic groups. Parents' ties to farming in farm-dependent communities further enhance children's civic orientations by providing added opportunities and incentives for social participation. Data from the Iowa Youth and Families Project confirm these hypotheses, showing that the children of farmers and of rural leaders are more likely to participate in civic groups. These results establish parental social involvement as a source of social capital and demonstrate the importance of farm influences for understanding the social involvement of youth in rural society.

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Family Influences on the Social Participation of Youth: The Effects of Parental Social Involvement and Farming

Chan

Elder

2001

Rural Sociology

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“…Observers and scholars find that citizen participation in volunteer groups is healthy and contributes to how citizens define self-esteem and self-identity in American society (Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, & Tipton, 1985;Passewitz & Donnermeyer, 1989), which is important to a heavily Latino and immigrant community like Ventura County, whereas other researchers, such as Arnstein (1969), have described a typology of citizen participation, finding citizen participation to be the redistribution of power that enables the have-not citizens presently excluded from the political and economic processes to be deliberately included in the future (Arnstein, 1969). 2 Arnstein equated citizen participation with citizen power and suggested that if participation did not result in a shift in power between the haves and the have-nots, then it was not real participation.…”

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Community Members Draw the Line

Freeland

2014

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This study investigates whether a community-based task force's redistricting plan in Ventura County, California, positively affected fair representation, social equity issues, community interests, and the electoral process. Examination and evaluation of the organizational strategies and collaborations involved in the task force's redistricting process find that the Board of Supervisors districts that members of the community drew were successful in improving and maintaining fair representation. This finding is based on comparing supervisorial votes and policies with community members' votes on state propositions and local measures, in addition to conducting interviews with task force members, politicians, and community activists. This study finds that citizen participation in governmental processes improves overall community health and political participation.

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Using Trained Volunteer Instructors: An Example of Community Health Education Programming

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Hughes

Dowdy

1991

Community Development Society. Journal

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The use of volunteer educators is not broadly implemented in community health education efforts. Many health education specialists believe that only highly trained and well-educated professionals are "qualified" to teach health-related information at the community level. However, well-trained volunteers with appropriate guidance and support materials should be as effective as trained professionals in teaching health concepts to the lay public. This paper looks at a project that was designed to develop and evaluate a health and nutrition education program based on the use of trained and supervised volunteer instructors.Two groups of instructors were recruited and trained to teach in a Healthy Mothers/ Healthy Babies program. One group had documented training and expertise in health education subject matter. The second group had no formal educational background in the nutrition or health areas. Both instructor groups received identical program materials, training, support, and follow-up contacts. Participants in a community health center's childbirth education classes were randomly assigned to the two types of volunteer instructors. Study results indicated no differences in the knowledge, attitude, or behavioral change measures between these two groups of participants. No significant differences were found relative to type of volunteer instructor. These results support the use of well-trained, well-managed, volunteer educators as an integral part of community education programs.

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Self-Interest and Volunteerism: Analysis of a Statewide Association

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Family Influences on the Social Participation of Youth: The Effects of Parental Social Involvement and Farming

Family Influences on the Social Participation of Youth: The Effects of Parental Social Involvement and Farming

Community Members Draw the Line

Using Trained Volunteer Instructors: An Example of Community Health Education Programming

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