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Who Cares? Toward an Integrated Theory of Volunteer Work

Wilson, John, Musick, Marc·1997·American Sociological Review
DOI 10.2307/2657355
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The authors construct an integrated theory of formal and informal volunteer work based on the premises that volunteer work is (1) productive work that requires human capital, (2) collective behavior that requires social capital, and (3) ethically guided work that requires cultural capital. Using education, income and functional health to measure human capital, number of children in the household and informal social interaction to measure social capital, and religiosity to measure cultural capital, they estimate a model in which formal volunteering and informal helping are reciprocally related but connected in different ways to different forms of capital. Using two-wave data from the Americans' Changing Lives panel study, they find that formal volunteering is positively related to human capital, number of children in the household, informal social interaction and religiosity. Informal helping, such as helping a neighbor, is primarily determined by gender, age and health. Estimation of reciprocal effects reveals that formal volunteering has a positive effect on helping, but helping does not affect formal volunteering

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Authors
Wilson, J., & Musick, M.
Affiliations
Duke University (US)
Venue
American Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1997-10
Volume
62
Issue
5
Pages
694
ISSN
0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/2657355
OpenAlex
W2108660896
Cited by
1,409
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 38 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 73 · 2018: 79 · 2017: 64 · 2016: 67 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 78 · 2013: 65 · 2012: 57
FWCI
39.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
American Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Capital and Networks
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Keywords
volunteering, formal volunteering, informal helping, human capital, social capital, cultural capital, religiosity, informal social interaction, reciprocal effects, gender differences

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