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The foundations of volunteering, charitable giving, voluntary associations, voluntary agencies, and other aspects of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector (VNPS) collectively and individual voluntary action lie in various aspects of human nature and human societies. These may be referred to variously as altruism, morality, ethics, virtue, kindness, generosity, cooperation, social solidarity, and prosociality. Such foundations of the VNPS, and specifically of social solidarity and prosociality, are the subjects of this literature review article/book. The central goal here is to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding, explaining, and predicting such phenomena, based on two versions of the author’s S-Theory.

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Author:   David Horton Smith
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   18
Weight:   0.271kg
ISBN:  

9789004415775

ISBN 10:   9004415777
Pages:   149
Publication Date:   15 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Determinants of Individual Prosociality and of Collective Social Solidarity-Cohesion: A Literature Review  David Horton Smith, PhD  Abstract  Keywords  Editor’s Introduction: “Individual Prosociality and Collective Social Solidarity as Key Terms in Voluntaristics in Their Larger Terminological Context”  1 On Human Prosociality: Being Hyper-Social as Distinctive of the Human Species  2 Informal Prosociality Activities as One Basis for Social Solidarity  3 Applying Individual-System-Level General S-Theory to Explaining Prosociality  4 Formal Volunteering and Formal Pro-Sociality Activities  5 Volunteering as Part of Broader Nonprofit Sector Development  6 Developing a Distinctive Definition of Social Solidarity-Cohesion  7 Applying Social-System-Level General S-Theory to Explaining Social Solidarity  8 Considering Social Solidarity at Different Analytical System Levels with S-Theory  9 S-Theory Analysis of Fostering, Maintaining, and Changing Social Solidarity  10 Disorder, Antisocial Behavior, Selfish Egoism, Conflict, Crime, and Other Negative Alternatives to Social Solidarity and Prosociality  11 Conclusion  Acknowledgement  Bibliography  Author Biography

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David Horton Smith (PhD Harvard University, 1965) is Research and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA. Founder (1971) of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action/ARNOVA (www.arnova.org) and its SSCI journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), he is founding editor of this journal.

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