ADM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kids Help Phone, Voluntary Sector, Civic Engagement
27 Sep 2018
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The community, volunteer sector, civic sector, civil society. Also referred to as the third segment". Skills, gender, age, ethnicity, or some combination of these. The totality of voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions. Shared characteristics, values, interests, goals that provokes a sense of belonging. Activities mainly instituted through forms of reciprocal relationships or solidarity. Based on good neighborliness" and social trust. Large number of women relative to men. Less emphasis on prive accumulation and minimizing cost, more emphasis on public goods and maximizing participation. Importance is placed on gratitude, obligation, generalized reciprocity and symbols. Civic entrepreneurs linking community and economic development. Ex: homeless people started a company here, they took broken bicycles, fixed them, then sold them. The dynamics of this sector are somewhat different from the other two sectors: In the economic segment, emerging issues are translated into opportunities for profit - the sorting mechanisms are supply and demand in the context of competition.
