Connected and Benevolent: The Positive Impact of Social Connections in Reducing Economic Concerns for Volunteering
Description:
This dissertation attempts to answer how social and economic mechanisms operate in individual, community and state levels to impact volunteering. Both social processes and economic factors significantly impact the amount of volunteering. However, researchers have a tendency to explain volunteering only by one of these factors. As both theories are equally important in explaining volunteerism, the development of a coherent theory is necessary to combine economic and social theories. This dissert…
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Date:
May 2018
Creator:
Baktir, Yusuf
Partner:
UNT Libraries