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Nonprofits Daring to Be Different as Moral Dark Energy Improving the World
A Review of Deviant Voluntary Associations
Series: - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume: 22
- Voluntaristics Review, Volume: 22
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Voluntary associations (VAs) are the oldest and most frequent type of groups in the charitable, voluntary, nonprofit, third, or civil society sector worldwide. Smithâs book reviews the positive long-term historical impacts of some fundamentally deviant VAs (DVAs) or dark side examples of such associations. Dissenting DVAs such as the American Anti-Slavery Society in the 1800s and the National Womanâs Party in the early 1900s worked long and effectively to foster U.S. socio-cultural progress and ethical evolution as part of the global rights revolution. Parallel Noxious DVAs like the German Nazi Party or Heavenâs Gate mass suicide cult had opposite, deeply harmful impacts. Eccentric DVAs like nudist/naturist clubs or Oneida free-love commune (mid-1800s) were largely harmless hobbies, with little harmful impact.
David Horton SMITH, PhD (1965, Harvard) is Research-Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College. His bio is one of only 40 living persons among 139 from all countries and all history honored in the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (Springer 2010).
Nonprofits Daring to Be Different as Moral Dark Energy Improving the World: A Review of Deviant Voluntary Associations
Abstract
Keywords
âSynopsis
âEditorâs Introduction to VR 5.1: Collective Associational Deviance versus Sociological/Political Science and Criminological Perspectives on Social Movement Associations
â1âIntellectual Background
â2âNoxious Deviant Voluntary Associations
â3âDissenting Deviant Voluntary Associations
â4âEccentric Deviant Voluntary Associations
â5âDissenting DVAâs as the Moral Dark Energy of the Nonprofit Sector
âAcknowledgments
âAuthor Biography
âBibliography
For academic libraries, social science professors/graduate students, and nonprofit leaders interested in historical positive and negative impacts of nonprofits, voluntary sector, civil society, mainly emphasizing deviant or rule-breaking nonprofits.