The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies: A Literature Review

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The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies

A Literature Review

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David Horton Smith

David Horton Smith Ph.D., Research and Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College Chestnut Hill USA Honorary Visiting Research Professor, Centre for Studies of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector, National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow Russian Federation Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, City, University of London London UK Visiting Scholar, Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University Beijing China Honorary Visiting Scholar, Australian Center for Community Studies and Research, Flinders University Adelaide Australia

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Pages:: 1–125

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004371897_002

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Reviewed here is global research on how 13 types of Voluntary Membership Associations (MAs) have significantly or substantially had global impacts on human history, societies, and life. Such outcomes have occurred especially in the past 200+ years since the Industrial Revolution circa 1800 CE, and its accompanying Organizational Revolution. Emphasized are longer-term, historical, and societal or multinational impacts of MAs, rather than more micro-level (individual) or meso-level (organizational) outcomes. MAs are distinctively structured, with power coming from the membership, not top-down. The author has characterized MAs as the dark matter of the nonprofit/third sector, using an astrophysical metaphor. Astrophysicists have shown that most physical matter in the universe is dark in the sense of being unseen, not stars or planets.

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The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies

A Literature Review

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume: 11 and Voluntaristics Review, Volume: 11

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Apr 2018

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