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Nenga, Sandi Kawecka.

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Claiming community: Adolescents' experiences of volunteer work.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Claiming community: Adolescents' experiences of volunteer work./
Author:	Nenga, Sandi Kawecka.
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3162.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	Sociology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3141612
ISBN:	0496886926

Claiming community: Adolescents' experiences of volunteer work.
Nenga, Sandi Kawecka.

Claiming community: Adolescents' experiences of volunteer work. - 245 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3162.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.

In response to contemporary portrayals of adolescents as a "tribe apart," politicians and educators routinely advocate volunteer work as a means of connecting adolescents to their communities. Does volunteer work help adolescents develop a sense of belonging and connection to a community? This dissertation uses interview and observation data from 41 adolescents engaged in a wide range of volunteer work to explain how youth form or fail to form different kinds of communities through volunteering. I argue that organizational strategies, cultural ideas about adolescence, and volunteers' decisions work together to produce varying types of community. For example, some organizations structure volunteer work to minimize interaction, commitment, and training. While some youth in these organizations look elsewhere for volunteer opportunities, others feel pushed out of their communities and stop volunteering altogether. Service clubs and some volunteer programs that stress psychological understandings of social problems create volunteer experiences that help adolescents connect to their pasts, their selves, and their peer groups. Many marginalized volunteer organizations, such as queer youth centers and pro-life clinics, set up trainings that emphasize accepting clients' differences. As volunteers internalize this norm, they are able to create community among a highly diverse group of volunteers. Additionally, volunteers turn to each other for support because they share the organization's sense of being embattled. Some mainstream nonprofit organizations facilitate community building with their volunteers by bringing them behind the scenes, giving them high levels of responsibility, and helping them to develop a broader awareness of social issues. These volunteers report strong identifications with their local communities, their volunteer organization, and with other volunteers. By analyzing adolescents' experiences of volunteer work, we can learn what nonprofit organizations can do to include adolescents in the community.

ISBN: 0496886926Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017541
Sociology, General.

Claiming community: Adolescents' experiences of volunteer work.
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