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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 229 I. EXCLUSIVITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS 238 A. The Origins of Exclusivity 238 B. Challenges to Exclusivity 241 C. The Bargaining--Politics Distinction 244 D. Janus Opens [...]

I've been traveling to animal law conferences putting on one-hour ethics CLE presentations for over a decade. The goal is to remind lawyer advocates that the rules of professional responsibility [...]

Sex research is viewed as being particularly susceptible to volunteer bias, especially those studies that involve genital response measurement. Willingness to participate in sex research may be affected by study [...]

Abstract. Crowdsourcing (CS) by cultural and heritage institutions engage volunteers in online projects without monetary compensation. Uncertainty concerning online volunteer motivation has led to a growing body of academic research. [...]

Post-boomer American Jews pose many challenges to established frameworks for understanding the organization of the American Jewish community. In an analysis of 58 in-depth interviews with post-boomer American Jews, we found a preference for people who described themselves as not religious, and we found a near-total absence of the language of ethnicity. Instead, interviewees volunteered tradition as a replacement for both and as part of a rationale for the elements of Jewish life that compelled them to participate. Rejecting the voluntarism of much baby-boomer religion and the established frameworks of religion and ethnicity, post-boomers' characterizations of their own Judaisms point to the ways in which the social science of American Jews needs to develop a finer, more diverse set of tools for understanding American Jews and the Judaisms they practice. Key words: social science, identity, religious nones, religion, secularism, tradition, According to the Pew Research Center's 2013 report entitled A Portrait of Jewish Americans (hereafter referred to as the Pew report), American post-boomers are more likely than their predecessors to [...]

Abstract Volunteer tourism is becoming an important way to understand and experience culture. In Thailand, one option for volunteers is to teach English to novice monks in Buddhist temple schools. [...]

SUMMARY IN JAPANESE: [phrase omitted] I. Introduction In 1963, sociologist William A. Glazer found the large number of volunteer workers to be a remarkable aspect of U.S. hospitals which distinguished [...]

Byline: Young. Yeun Aim: Volunteers play a key role in hospice and palliative service. This study was performed to investigate the motivations of Korean hospice volunteers and to identify the [...]

This comment concerns a two-fold phenomenon, namely differentiations within the wide array of what is called civic engagement, including voluntary action; and shifts that sometimes blur the demarcation lines between the worlds of voluntary action and working life. How do these two developments affect the meaning of volunteering both on an analytical and on a public discourse level?, Author(s): Adalbert Evers[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Adalbert Evers is Professor (emeritus) for Comparative Health and Social Policy, having worked at the University of Giessen (Germany) and actually working as a senior [...]

This article responds to Dominelli's contribution by mapping three lines of discussion. The first relates to the issue of how to understand voluntary work with regard to the realization of citizenship. The authors argue that this understanding depends on the way citizenship is conceived. Whereas a rights-based conception of citizenship focuses on issues of equal access to voluntary work, a duty-oriented notion of citizenship tends to see voluntarism as embedded in an educational strategy, alongside professionalized social work. The authors plead for an alternative understanding of voluntary work and social work as joined partners in practices of 'learning democracy'. The second line of discussion revolves around the relation between social and political dimensions of citizenship. With Dominelli, the authors point out how the obscuring of the political dimension risks to nurture societal discourses that put pressure on the welfare state. The third point relates to the difficulties in positioning voluntary work with regard to professional social work. One of these difficulties is the tendency to over-romanticize voluntary work as warm, informal, generous, while giving an exclusively technical reading of social work professionalization., Author(s): Maria De Bie[sup.1] , Rudi Roose[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Maria De Bie is a Professor in Social Welfare Studies. Her research interests and publications cover a variety of topics from [...]

The author starts from the observation that citizenship and voluntarism are contested terms with diverse meanings. They have also been appropriated by politicians of various persuasions and imbued with meanings associated with 'feel good' factors that emphasize serving in a community. Therefore, voluntarism has the potential to continue the exclusion of minority groups, marginalized individuals and collective groupings at the expense of their citizenship rights, particularly those identified by Hannah Arendt as the 'right to have rights' that have been endorsed through public policy but today are being undermined by the 'age of austerity' in publicly funded welfare states. Against the background of the political context of UK, and the public rhetoric on the 'Big Society', the author examines whether citizenship discourses allied with voluntarism support a meaningful endorsement of altruistic solidarity or whether they endorse exploitative relationships under the guise of meeting the public needs., Author(s): Lena Dominelli[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Lena Dominelli is a Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Co-director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Research, at Durham University. She is [...]

In this final response, the author reflects on the recent European elections that favored Euro-skeptic right-wing parties all over Europe. Their Far-Right views blame 'immigrants' for the current problems in Europe and challenge institutionalized solidarity. The response, firstly, attacks the dominating discourses in the media which obscure that 75 % of the voters embrace the status quo of free movement and regional citizenship within the EU. Secondly, this final reply connects the move to Far-Right views to general feelings of insecurity that increased in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Current scape-goat policies regarding immigrants can be traced to strategies of neighborliness, which in turn reflect deeper social and economic anxieties caused by the withdrawal of state services and the logic of neo-liberal capitalism., Author(s): Lena Dominelli[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Lena Dominelli is a Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Co-director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Research, at Durham University. She is [...]

Drawing on Victor Frankl's observations, this comment illustrates how human beings are prior to any initiative that is pre-directed towards meaning. In pointing to this human condition, it introduces a subtle distinction between striving for happiness and a will for meaning, yet it is in the trans-ethical meaningful acts that a relation can be found with the wit(h)nessing as referred to by Note and Van Daele., Author(s): Roger Burggraeve[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Roger Burggraeve has a master's degree in Philosophy (Rome, 1966) and a doctorate in Moral Theology (Leuven, 1980). From 1980 to 2007, he was a [...]

This article is intended to contribute to the discussion on the meaning of volunteering by investigating voluntary work from the viewpoint of volunteers active in Swedish civil society organizations.Meaning refers both to the cognitive meaning of concepts and to the perceived meaning in life. The aim to uncover the predicates that people attribute to the concept is an attempt to anatomize volunteering as a social construct. Five predicates emerged and they make up the phenomenological structure of volunteering. By contextualizing this structure in contemporary Swedish society, it is demonstrated that the conceptual meaning of volunteering has significance for its existential meaning. The volunteers say that their authenticity is confirmed through the voluntary work since they are making themselves manifest in public. Following Hannah Arendt, the reasons for this is that authenticity demands that the volunteers conduct their actions in a public realm where their actions acquire an intrinsic value as neither coerced nor instrumental., Author(s): Johan von Essen[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Johan von Essen is a theologian and an assistant professor at Institute for Civil Society Studies, Ersta Skondal University College in Stockholm Sweden. His [...]

This introductory article starts by describing the genesis of this special issue and the interconnection of its topics. The editors offer a variety of reading entries into the key-note articles and responses. The article reconstructs the research interests underpinning the idea of integrating meaningfulness, volunteers and citizenship. It highlights the explicit interdisciplinary design of the special issue, and shows how the key-note authors, and their respondents, weave connections between meaningfulness, volunteering and citizenship. And, finally, the editors bring the background understandings of the key-note papers to the foreground, and reconstruct a non-intentional meta-level discussion on two fundamental concepts and their interplay: self and world., Author(s): Erik Claes[sup.1] , Nicole Note[sup.2] Author Affiliations: Erik Claes is a lecturer and a researcher at Odisee, University College, School of Social Work. He currently co-ordinates two research projects [...]

Responding to Kunneman's argument that the notion of 'ethical complexity' introduces an existential and ethical turn in the field of complexity thinking, it is argued that Kunneman's concept of 'diapoiesis' corresponds to a critical interpretation of 'complexity thinking'. By applying critical complexity thinking to the notion of voluntary work, Kunneman explores the possibility of rearticulating the notion of voluntary work outside the boundaries of the static economic paradigm of consumption and production of labor. He redefines voluntary work in terms of the many tensions that emerge as a result of belonging to a number of spheres simultaneously. Reconfigured by what can be called a 'dialogical hermeneutics of complexity thinking' Kunneman exposes the moral narrative that underpins the ethical imperative that is inextricably linked to 'civic meaningfulness'., Author(s): Rika Preiser[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Rika Preiser is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Studies in Complexity at the Stellenbosch University. She holds Masters Degrees in Journalism and [...]

This paper draws on an in-depth phenomenological analysis of some interviews taken from volunteers, inviting them to reflect on their lived experiences of meaningfulness in the context of volunteering and citizenship. It is found that while some testimonies reinforce the standard conceptions of meaningfulness, other testimonies vary from it. The main challenge of this contribution consists in phenomenologically describing this alternative picture of meaningfulness, depicted as the event of wit(h)nessing. In a final part, the authors consider how volunteering is at times especially prone to further experiences of wit(h)nessing., Author(s): Nicole Note[sup.1] , Emilie Van Daele[sup.2] Author Affiliations: Nicole Note has an MA in Languages and Cultures of Indian Amercia (Leiden, The Netherlands) and a PhD in Philosophy. She [...]

Due to Swedish history, to date there has been a common understanding of the meaning of volunteering in Sweden. However, it seems as if the meaning of volunteering is changing in Sweden, at least in some atypical hybrid organizations. However, this change presupposes that there is a conception of volunteering that has been institutionalized by tradition. Hence, to understand this change, one has to capture the institutionalized meaning of volunteering. In the academic debate there is sometimes an implied opposition between conceptual meaning and existential meaning. It is argued that this divide is unfortunate, the existential aspect presupposes the conceptual aspect of meaning. The study of the meaning of volunteering is an attempt to uncover existential meaning in everyday life. Neither the cognitive meaning nor the existential meaning of volunteering is an objective fact but fragile and dependent upon contextual factors., Author(s): Johan von Essen[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Johan von Essen is a theologian and an assistant professor at Institute for Civil Society Studies, Ersta Skondal University College in Stockholm Sweden. His [...]

As we commemorate the centennial of Royce's death, it is valuable to remember earlier attempts to assess Royce's significance on commemorative occasions. This paper examines the 1915 'Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on his Sixtieth Birthday' which formed the basis for a 1916 commemorative festschrift. I explore the background of the festschrift and offer guidance for approaching the papers by commenting on the festschrift paper of Morris Raphael Cohen. I examine the papers submitted by John Dewey, Mary Calkins, and Charles Bakewell and their relationships to one another. The paper suggests throughout the importance of biography in thinking about philosophical questions. I tie the papers by Dewey, Calkins, and Bakewell into current thinking about Royce. I argue that the broad outlines of their papers, based on voluntarism, personalism, and community, remain important for thinking about Royce during this commemorative year. Keywords: pragmatism, idealism, personalism, voluntarism, Josiah Royce, Morris R. Cohen, John Dewey, Mary Calkins, Charles Bakewell., It is an honor to participate in this commemoration of the centenary of the death of Josiah Royce (1855-1916). The commemoration provides an occasion for revisiting and reinterpreting Royce to [...]