What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2960138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Rotolo (0000-0002-5131-3678, Washington State University, corresponding author), J Wilson (0000-0003-2118-3646), John F Wilson (0000-0001-7728-2892, Duke University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1091-1121 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sof.2004.0051 |
| OpenAlex | W2048320016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 27 |
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
Civic engagement · Cohort · Demographic economics · Depression (economics) · Economics · First generation · Generation x · Great Depression · Keynesian economics · Political science · Politics · Population · Public relations · Sociology · Test (biology) · Third generation · Volunteer · Volunteer work · Demography · Law · Medicine · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Gerontology
Foreign-born Concentration and Acculturation to Volunteering among Immigrant Youth
Job Displacement and Social Participation over the Lifecourse
From gardeners to revolutionaries
Voluntary Membership and Well-Being of Nonprofit, Government, and Business Employees
The Immediate Effects of Changes in Life Circumstances on Volunteering Decisions in the USA
Personal Networks
The Relationships of Age With Job Attitudes
Produktives Altern und informelle Arbeit
Volunteer Transitions Among Older Adults
An Empirical Assessment of Generational Differences in Basic Human Values
An Empirical Assessment of Generational Differences in Basic Human Values
Life Course, Gender, and Participation in Voluntary Organizations in Italy
Time to Volunteer
Volunteering and Income Inequality
Growing the Volunteer Pool
The Development of a New Instrument for the Assessment of Life Satisfaction in Apostolic Women Religious
Romanticism, community and social services
Inside the Black Box
Community Participation, Social Ties, and Use of the Internet
Reconsidering Collective Efficacy
Volunteering After Retirement
More or less help? A longitudinal investigation of positive and negative consequences of divorce for informal helping
If You Build It, Will They Come? Examining Motivations of Extension Master Gardener Volunteers
Intergenerational and community responsibility
Checkbooks in the Heartland
Changes in small town social capital and civic engagement
Are Gender Differences in Basic Human Values a Generational Phenomenon
La participation sociale des Canadiens
How Locality, Frequency of Communication and Internet Usage Affect Modes of Communication Within Core Social Networks
Volunteering in Middle and Later Life
Age, Period and Cohort Effects On Social Capital
Has Volunteering Changed in the United States? Trends, Styles, and Motivations in Historical Perspective
Going solo
Social engagement from childhood to middle age and the effect of childhood socio-economic status on middle age social engagement
Formal and informal social participation of the ‘young-old’ in The Netherlands in 1992 and 2002
Trust, sense of community, and civic engagement
The Network Structure of Local and Extra‐Local Voluntary Participation
Cohort Variations in the Membership of Voluntary Associations in Great Britain, 1991–2007
Transmission ehrenamtlichen Engagements im Elternhaus – Ergebnis von Sozialisation oder Statustransmission
Voluntary Labor, Responsible Citizenship, and International NGOs
An Examination of the Relationship between Characteristics of Sect-Like Religiosity and Community Volunteering among U.S. Churchgoers
African and European American Women's Volunteerism and Activism
Societal Determinants of Productive Aging
Social Isolation in America
Study Navigation and Enrollment in a Community Sample
Increasing Both Organizational and Client Capacities During Tough Economic Times
Childhood conditions and productive aging in China
Sommes-nous égaux devant l'« injonction » à participer
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies
The Social Connectedness of Older Adults
Lire les inégalités à travers les pratiques de participation sociale
The Process of Sex Segregation in a Gender-Typed Field
Individualizing Utopia
Social Participation across Mid- and Later-life
The Usefulness and Uselessness of the Decomposition of Tobit Coefficients
Serving as a Charitable Trustee in England and Wales
Social Participation Revisited
Taxing Political Life
The Implications of Transitions in the Voluntary Sector for Civic Engagement
Volunteering over the Life Course
The Consequences of Weakening Organizational Attachment for Volunteering in Denmark, 2004-2012
Six-year Follow-up on Volunteering in Later Life
Changing Families/Changing Communities
Exploring the Relationship Between Types of Family Work and Marital Well-Being
Civic Engagement Among Small-Group Participants
Religion and the organizational context of immigrant civic engagement
Social capital and civic action
Institutional Affiliation as a Measure of Organizational Social Capital
The overworked American
Gender and family issues in the workplace
The economics of women, men and work
Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependent Variables
Contention in Demographic and Life-Course Context
Children of the Great Depression
Working for Nothing
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics
The Uses of Tobit Analysis
The Influence of Caregiving and Employment on the Voluntary Activities of Midlife and Older Women
Public Perception of “Who is a Volunteer”
Labor-Force Reentry Among U.S. Homemakers in Midlife
The Changing Lives of American Women
Diversity and Its Discontents
Social Capital and Politics
Maternal employment and time with children
Mannheim's Sociology of Generations
Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements
Unplanned Careers
Learning More From Tobit Coefficients
The Third Shift
Residues of a Movement
A Household Production Analysis Of Religious
The Changing Lives of American Women
Connections and Constraints
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| Unique citing works | 68 |
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| Citations per year | 3,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |