This article reviews recent literature on US religious institutions and argues that a new
paradigm is emerging in that field, the crux of which is that organized religion thrives in the …

This article reviews the American literature in social science for the period 1975–1992 on
the determinants of volunteer participation in programs and associations. It finds that most …

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

The authors applied functionalist theory to the question of the motivations underlying
volunteerism, hypothesized 6 functions potentially served by volunteerism, and designed an …

Conventional wisdom suggests that citizens in many countries have become disengaged
from the traditional channels of political participation. Commentators highlight warning signs …

Using two waves of panel data from Americans' Changing Lives (House 1995)(N= 2,681),
we examine the relationships between volunteer work in the community and six aspects of …

Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in society's moral
values, there has been a similar Great Disruption during the last half of the twentieth century …

" The emphasis on change at many levels of organization is critically important as is the first
attempt to integrate sophisticated theory and research in organization psychology (eg …

Objectives. Studies often fail to adequately test the causal relationship between volunteering
and well-being. Yet the media and empirical research have focused attention on the impact …

This study reexamines the relationships between corporate diversification strategies and
firm performance and suggests that these relationships are related to home country …