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Voluntary Associations

By: D. Douglas Caulkins
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:community associations; community building; encyclopedia; leisure; voluntary associations; volunteering; women's groups

Voluntary associations, as a category of social organization, are most often defined by what they are not: They are nonkinship, nongovernmental, nonprofit, and noncoercive groups. More positively described, they are collectivities with a group identity and voluntary ...

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  Caulkins, D. (2003). Voluntary associations. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 1464-1465). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n511
  
  Caulkins, D. Douglas. "Voluntary Associations." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 1464-65. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n511.
  
  Caulkins, D. 2003. Voluntary Associations. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1464-1465 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n511> [Accessed 13 Jun 2021].
  
  Caulkins, D. Douglas. "Voluntary Associations." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 1464-65. SAGE Knowledge. 13 Jun 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n511.
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