Curtis Child
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3633038 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Curtis Child |
| NOMBRES | Curtis |
| APELLIDO | Child |
| FIRMA | CHILD C |
| AFILIACIONES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9460-7249 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Light Work Makes Light Money
How does earning money in an intentionally low-effort manner influence the way people organize and spend that money? Drawing on interviews with paid plasma donors, we develop the notion of “light money,” a type of money earned through what we call “light work.” We situate light money conceptually between “serious money” and “windfall money” and argue that it describes money earned through a wide range of activities that have not yet been characte…
Reimagining Nonprofits
What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Collecting the writing of some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies, this book challenges our traditional understanding of the role and purpose of the nonprofit sector. It reflects on the ways in which new cultural and economic shifts bring existing assumptions into question and offers new conceptualizations of the nonprofit sector that will inform, provoke, and inspire. …
The Enduring Role of Sector
What role does sector play in citizens’ perceptions of products or services in mixed-market settings where governments compete with for-profit and nonprofit vendors or when governments partner or contract with private-sector providers? Do the public and nonprofit sectors have an advantage over for-profit providers? Using choice-based conjoint analysis with a nationally representative paid consumer panel, we examine the relevance of sector to cons…
We Got an Invite into the Fortress”
Responding to identified needs for increased veterans' access to healthcare, in 2010 the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched the Veteran Community Partnership (VCP) initiative to "foster seamless access to, and transitions among, the full continuum of non-institutional extended care and support services in VA and the community". This initiative represents an important effort by VA to promote collaboration with a broad range…
Experiences With General Education
General education (GE) classes are designed to reflect the mission and goals of the university and to help students become more well-rounded, career-ready, and civically-minded post-graduation. Students' perceptions of these courses have a significant influence on their capacity to succeed, and ultimately to get the most out of their college experience. Using results from an email questionnaire sent to students at a private university in the west…
How to Sell a Friend
Economic sociologists agree that monetary transactions are not necessarily antithetical to meaningful social relationships. However, they also accept that creating 'good matches' between the two requires hard work. In this article, I contribute to the relational program in economic sociology by examining a common but understudied type of work in which one party to a relationship stands to benefit from it financially. I identify in these highly co…
Optimism and Bias When Evaluating a Prosocial Initiative
Objective This study examines how people evaluate prosocial initiatives—in particular, whether they exhibit optimism bias when asked to consider the outcomes of a hypothetical initiative that is described to take place in the nonprofit, business, or government sector. It also assesses the conditions under which optimism bias is malleable. Methods We use a survey with an experimental component to compare subjects’ evaluations of a hypothetical ini…
Shopping for Change
Printed on p. 147 of the edited volume Shop- ping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power is a reproduc- tion of a 1944 wartime poster. At its center is the stylized portrait of a well-kept, smiling woman. White gloves cover her delicate hands. A thin purse rests under one arm, and three packages—presumably just purchased—balance neatly in the other. She is surrounded by the images of six equally sanguine men—salut…
From Social Movement to Moral Market
It feels odd, when I can simultaneously stream a European soccer game to my laptop while reading news headlines from around the world and answering emails, and at a time when many of our students know nothing other than the ubiquity of digital connectedness, to think of the turn of the century as a time when an entire sector of the economy was technologically unsophisticated—especially when the turn in question is from the twentieth to the twenty…
Adding the Organizational Perspective
International volunteering is an increasingly popular form of service work, but the scholarship on international volunteering has done little to unpack the assertion that organizations shape the international volunteering experience. We demonstrate the utility of taking an organizational perspective by reporting on an ethnographic investigation of an international voluntary service episode in Southern India. In doing so, we attend to all of the p…
The Blurring Hypothesis Reconsidered
This article asks: Is sector still a useful concept for social science research on nonprofit organizations and related fields, such as social entrepreneurship? We answer that it is relevant to practitioners for whom sector boundaries remain an important orienting feature of their organizational worldviews. This observation is at odds with the recent scholarship on “blurring” sector boundaries, much of which suggests that sector is increasingly an…
Homelessness and the High Performance Cycle
Although social work scholarship has recognized the presence and utility of goals and goal setting among the homeless, the literature remains underdeveloped. This study evaluates the extent to which the work motivation literature, mostly applied in formal business settings, can improve current understandings of how persons successfully escape homelessness. Specifically, this study focuses on the high performance cycle, a model in organizational b…
Binational Human Rights
In the concluding chapter to Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience, William Paul Simmons, one of the editors, suggests that the book can be read as a “sustained indictment of Mexican and U.S. policies” on a variety of human rights-related issues. This is true. What the reader finds in its ten chapters, along with the introduction and conclusion at either end, is not a staid dialogue among scholars who are carefully weighing the pros…
Bulwarks against Market Pressures
How do members of fair trade businesses hold their profit-maximizing interests in check in order to make room for extra-financial ones? Answering this question is important because corporations are increasingly called upon to be responsible-even social-value producing-citizens, but scholars do not fully understand how they become so. Using data from the fair trade industry, this article demonstrates that market pressures can be buffered in part b…
Shaming the Corporation
As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances and the demand for rights. But researchers often bracket the question of why some kinds of organizations are more likely than others to become targets of social movement pressure. We theorize the "social production of targets" by social movements, rejecting a simple …
Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations
Objectives. In this article we examine political advocacy by nonprofit organizations. Relatively little is known about the types of organizations that participate in advocacy, their characteristics, the issues for which they advocate, and the resources they devote to it. This is especially the case for nonprofits that operate at the state or local level. Methods. Using data from a large survey of Indiana nonprofit organizations, we use logistic a…
Shaming the Corporation
As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances and the demand for rights. But researchers often bracket the question of why some kinds of organizations are more likely than others to become targets of social movement pressure. We theorize the "social production of targets" by social movements, rejecting a simple …
Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations
Objectives. In this article we examine political advocacy by nonprofit organizations. Relatively little is known about the types of organizations that participate in advocacy, their characteristics, the issues for which they advocate, and the resources they devote to it. This is especially the case for nonprofits that operate at the state or local level. Methods. Using data from a large survey of Indiana nonprofit organizations, we use logistic a…
How to Sell a Friend
Economic sociologists agree that monetary transactions are not necessarily antithetical to meaningful social relationships. However, they also accept that creating 'good matches' between the two requires hard work. In this article, I contribute to the relational program in economic sociology by examining a common but understudied type of work in which one party to a relationship stands to benefit from it financially. I identify in these highly co…
The Blurring Hypothesis Reconsidered
This article asks: Is sector still a useful concept for social science research on nonprofit organizations and related fields, such as social entrepreneurship? We answer that it is relevant to practitioners for whom sector boundaries remain an important orienting feature of their organizational worldviews. This observation is at odds with the recent scholarship on “blurring” sector boundaries, much of which suggests that sector is increasingly an…
The Enduring Role of Sector
What role does sector play in citizens’ perceptions of products or services in mixed-market settings where governments compete with for-profit and nonprofit vendors or when governments partner or contract with private-sector providers? Do the public and nonprofit sectors have an advantage over for-profit providers? Using choice-based conjoint analysis with a nationally representative paid consumer panel, we examine the relevance of sector to cons…
Optimism and Bias When Evaluating a Prosocial Initiative
Objective This study examines how people evaluate prosocial initiatives—in particular, whether they exhibit optimism bias when asked to consider the outcomes of a hypothetical initiative that is described to take place in the nonprofit, business, or government sector. It also assesses the conditions under which optimism bias is malleable. Methods We use a survey with an experimental component to compare subjects’ evaluations of a hypothetical ini…
Shopping for Change
Printed on p. 147 of the edited volume Shop- ping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power is a reproduc- tion of a 1944 wartime poster. At its center is the stylized portrait of a well-kept, smiling woman. White gloves cover her delicate hands. A thin purse rests under one arm, and three packages—presumably just purchased—balance neatly in the other. She is surrounded by the images of six equally sanguine men—salut…
Binational Human Rights
In the concluding chapter to Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience, William Paul Simmons, one of the editors, suggests that the book can be read as a “sustained indictment of Mexican and U.S. policies” on a variety of human rights-related issues. This is true. What the reader finds in its ten chapters, along with the introduction and conclusion at either end, is not a staid dialogue among scholars who are carefully weighing the pros…
Bulwarks against Market Pressures
How do members of fair trade businesses hold their profit-maximizing interests in check in order to make room for extra-financial ones? Answering this question is important because corporations are increasingly called upon to be responsible-even social-value producing-citizens, but scholars do not fully understand how they become so. Using data from the fair trade industry, this article demonstrates that market pressures can be buffered in part b…
Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations
Objectives. In this article we examine political advocacy by nonprofit organizations. Relatively little is known about the types of organizations that participate in advocacy, their characteristics, the issues for which they advocate, and the resources they devote to it. This is especially the case for nonprofits that operate at the state or local level. Methods. Using data from a large survey of Indiana nonprofit organizations, we use logistic a…
Shaming the Corporation
As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances and the demand for rights. But researchers often bracket the question of why some kinds of organizations are more likely than others to become targets of social movement pressure. We theorize the "social production of targets" by social movements, rejecting a simple …
Adding the Organizational Perspective
International volunteering is an increasingly popular form of service work, but the scholarship on international volunteering has done little to unpack the assertion that organizations shape the international volunteering experience. We demonstrate the utility of taking an organizational perspective by reporting on an ethnographic investigation of an international voluntary service episode in Southern India. In doing so, we attend to all of the p…
The Blurring Hypothesis Reconsidered
This article asks: Is sector still a useful concept for social science research on nonprofit organizations and related fields, such as social entrepreneurship? We answer that it is relevant to practitioners for whom sector boundaries remain an important orienting feature of their organizational worldviews. This observation is at odds with the recent scholarship on “blurring” sector boundaries, much of which suggests that sector is increasingly an…
Homelessness and the High Performance Cycle
Although social work scholarship has recognized the presence and utility of goals and goal setting among the homeless, the literature remains underdeveloped. This study evaluates the extent to which the work motivation literature, mostly applied in formal business settings, can improve current understandings of how persons successfully escape homelessness. Specifically, this study focuses on the high performance cycle, a model in organizational b…
Binational Human Rights
In the concluding chapter to Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience, William Paul Simmons, one of the editors, suggests that the book can be read as a “sustained indictment of Mexican and U.S. policies” on a variety of human rights-related issues. This is true. What the reader finds in its ten chapters, along with the introduction and conclusion at either end, is not a staid dialogue among scholars who are carefully weighing the pros…
Bulwarks against Market Pressures
How do members of fair trade businesses hold their profit-maximizing interests in check in order to make room for extra-financial ones? Answering this question is important because corporations are increasingly called upon to be responsible-even social-value producing-citizens, but scholars do not fully understand how they become so. Using data from the fair trade industry, this article demonstrates that market pressures can be buffered in part b…
From Social Movement to Moral Market
It feels odd, when I can simultaneously stream a European soccer game to my laptop while reading news headlines from around the world and answering emails, and at a time when many of our students know nothing other than the ubiquity of digital connectedness, to think of the turn of the century as a time when an entire sector of the economy was technologically unsophisticated—especially when the turn in question is from the twentieth to the twenty…
Shopping for Change
Printed on p. 147 of the edited volume Shop- ping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power is a reproduc- tion of a 1944 wartime poster. At its center is the stylized portrait of a well-kept, smiling woman. White gloves cover her delicate hands. A thin purse rests under one arm, and three packages—presumably just purchased—balance neatly in the other. She is surrounded by the images of six equally sanguine men—salut…
Optimism and Bias When Evaluating a Prosocial Initiative
Objective This study examines how people evaluate prosocial initiatives—in particular, whether they exhibit optimism bias when asked to consider the outcomes of a hypothetical initiative that is described to take place in the nonprofit, business, or government sector. It also assesses the conditions under which optimism bias is malleable. Methods We use a survey with an experimental component to compare subjects’ evaluations of a hypothetical ini…
How to Sell a Friend
Economic sociologists agree that monetary transactions are not necessarily antithetical to meaningful social relationships. However, they also accept that creating 'good matches' between the two requires hard work. In this article, I contribute to the relational program in economic sociology by examining a common but understudied type of work in which one party to a relationship stands to benefit from it financially. I identify in these highly co…
We Got an Invite into the Fortress”
Responding to identified needs for increased veterans' access to healthcare, in 2010 the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched the Veteran Community Partnership (VCP) initiative to "foster seamless access to, and transitions among, the full continuum of non-institutional extended care and support services in VA and the community". This initiative represents an important effort by VA to promote collaboration with a broad range…
Experiences With General Education
General education (GE) classes are designed to reflect the mission and goals of the university and to help students become more well-rounded, career-ready, and civically-minded post-graduation. Students' perceptions of these courses have a significant influence on their capacity to succeed, and ultimately to get the most out of their college experience. Using results from an email questionnaire sent to students at a private university in the west…
The Enduring Role of Sector
What role does sector play in citizens’ perceptions of products or services in mixed-market settings where governments compete with for-profit and nonprofit vendors or when governments partner or contract with private-sector providers? Do the public and nonprofit sectors have an advantage over for-profit providers? Using choice-based conjoint analysis with a nationally representative paid consumer panel, we examine the relevance of sector to cons…
Reimagining Nonprofits
What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Collecting the writing of some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies, this book challenges our traditional understanding of the role and purpose of the nonprofit sector. It reflects on the ways in which new cultural and economic shifts bring existing assumptions into question and offers new conceptualizations of the nonprofit sector that will inform, provoke, and inspire. …
Light Work Makes Light Money
How does earning money in an intentionally low-effort manner influence the way people organize and spend that money? Drawing on interviews with paid plasma donors, we develop the notion of “light money,” a type of money earned through what we call “light work.” We situate light money conceptually between “serious money” and “windfall money” and argue that it describes money earned through a wide range of activities that have not yet been characte…
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