Gifts as gains? The impact of volunteering on young people’s educational and occupational attainment in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21293842 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Sikora (0000-0001-9676-8417, Australian National University, corresponding author), Jennifer Green (0000-0002-3541-4989, Independent scholar, Canberra, Australia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-194 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9441 • E-ISSN: 2050-5884 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0004944120910813 |
| OpenAlex | W3013700677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
Volunteering is perceived as benefiting youth by facilitating university entry and access to better employment. However, little empirical evidence exists to show whether such perceptions are justified. Therefore, this article presents data on volunteering and attainment from a representative sample of Australians who were born around 1990 and participated in the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth between 2006 and 2016. Supplementing results of two-level hierarchical models involving person-year data with insights from several in-depth interviews, we argue that Bourdieu’s theory of social practice is a fruitful framework for understanding how volunteering affects university participation and occupational status of young people. Volunteering provides gains, but they are not large enough to view it as an instrumental means which young people use to advance their educational and employment prospects. Rather, volunteering can be considered as a form of cultural capital which is beneficial but enacted for reasons other than extrinsic rewards
Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Empirical evidence · Perception · Sample (material) · Social capital · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Status attainment · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Volunteerism, Psychology of
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century
Participation in different types of volunteering at young, middle and older adulthood
Youth and political economy
Researching Giving and Volunteering in Australia
Widening the gap
Skilled Migration in Australia
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
Doing well by doing good. The relationship between formal volunteering and self-reported health and happiness
Cultural Capital
The Ausei06
Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion
Volunteering
Long-term consequences of youth volunteering
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |