Journal article
What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism
Social forces, Vol.82(3), pp.1091-1121
03/2004
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/121980
Abstract
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.
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- Title
- What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism
- Creators
- Thomas Rotolo - Washington State UniversityJohn Wilson - Duke University
- Publication Details
- Social forces, Vol.82(3), pp.1091-1121
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Identifiers
- 99900619754701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article