Author: Milofsky, Carl

Publication Year: 1978

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This paper represents a brief survey of the sociological literature on nonprofit organizations.

Abstract:

This paper represents a brief survey of the sociological literature on nonprofit organizations. The author explains the format as follows:

While I have provided an indexed bibliography to guide the reader who wishes to read abstracts, my literature review is primarily contained in a huge number of footnotes to the discussion in the body of the paper. There are two major parts to this paper. The first concerns the role of voluntary organizations in community theory and its has two subdivisions. The first section concerns the idea of community and refers primarily to ethnographic studies of communities. The second part concerns alienation and mass society theories. It reviews mass society critiques of community, but finally settles on a consideration of the mass non-profit organization. The second section deals with six traditions of participation in non-profit [nonprofit] organizations.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Community Development