Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure
Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as unpaid (productive) work. This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is discussed as the volitional definition. By means of a lengthy literature review, this book sets out the theoretical and empirical contributions of the serious leisure perspective to understanding volunteer motivation. This second approach began more than 40 years ago. It answers the key motivational question of why people engage in unpaid productive work, laborious or not. Since…
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- ISBN: 978-1-137-58517-2
- EAN: 9781137585172
- Produktnummer: 20267770
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 90 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'036 KB
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Robert A. Stebbins is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research and theoretic interests lie in work, leisure, and volunteering. His most recent books include Careers in Serious Leisure (Palgrave, 2014) and The Idea of Leisure (2012).
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