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Title: What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism
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Rotolo, Thomas Wilson, John |
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What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism Social Forces 82,3 (March 2004): 1091-1121. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598367 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Volunteer Work; Women's Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In Bowling Alone Robert Putnam argues that the passing of the "long civic generation," whose values were molded by the Depression and the Second World War, has resulted in a decline in civic engagement. In this analysis we test the generation hypothesis by comparing the volunteer behavior of two successive generations of women at the same age. No support for Putnam's thesis is found. Once appropriate controls for sociodemographic trends are imposed, generation differences disappear. However, there are cohort differences in the type of volunteer work performed. |
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Rotolo, Thomas and John Wilson. "What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism." Social Forces 82,3 (March 2004): 1091-1121.
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