Navigating Theories of Volunteering: A Hybrid Map for a Complex Phenomenon
Navigating Theories of Volunteering: A Hybrid Map for a Complex Phenomenon
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-5914.2010.00439.x
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
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1.4
通讯作者：
Handy, Femida
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作者：
Hustinx, Lesley;Cnaan, Ram A.;Handy, Femida
对志愿服务的研究产生了多种理论和概念模式，但没有出现综合理论。这种方法的多样性反映了对志愿服务理论究竟应该是什么普遍缺乏共识，各学科在概念上的偏好不同，以及在建立理论本身的过程中所涉及的复杂性和矛盾性（萨顿和Staw，1995年）。威尔逊（2000年）在一篇关于志愿工作的里程碑式的文章中得出结论说：“一个问题是，“志愿工作”这一通用术语包含了大量完全不同的活动。试图用同一理论来解释所有活动，或者把所有活动当作在结果方面都是一样的来对待，这可能是没有结果的。用于分解志愿工作的志愿服务分类是民间类别（例如，与学校有关的，帮助老人），并且没有理由相信这些分类在社会学上有用（Wilson 2000，pp. 233-234）。
The study of volunteerism has generated multiple theoretical and conceptual models yet no integrated theory has emerged. This multiplicity of approaches reflects a general lack of consensus on exactly what a theory of volunteering should be, differences in conceptual preferences across disciplines, as well as the complexities and contradictions involved in the process of building theory itself (Sutton & Staw, 1995). In a landmark article on volunteering, Wilson (2000) concluded that:One problem is that the generic term “volunteering” embraces a vast array of quite disparate activities. It is probably not fruitful to try to explain all activities with the same theory nor to treat all activities as if they were the same with respect to consequences. The taxonomies of volunteering that are used to disaggregate volunteer work are folk categories (eg, school-related, helping the elderly), and there is little reason to believe these categorizations are sociologically useful (Wilson 2000, pp. 233–234).