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By S. Wojciech Sokolowski

ISBN-10: 0306462508

ISBN-13: 9780306462504

ISBN-10: 0306471779

ISBN-13: 9780306471773

Focusing on service-providing firms demonstrated through future health and human carrier pros in post-Communist Poland, this booklet provides a brand new measurement to the sociological research of voluntary organisations. the writer investigates the factors and pursuits of the folk who determine those agencies and the connections between organizational varieties, the social corporations of creation, and the occupational pursuits carrier providers.

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Maximizing faith”). How do we know the person had such an interest? Because he or she established a nonprofit organization. , the creation of a nonprofit organization). James takes that route and infers the existence of such motives from the known occupational interests of moral entrepreneurs. It is in the best interests of the clergy to have as many followers as possible. If the number of followers is lower than expected and the conventional religious proselytizing fails, for various social reasons, to win new converts, then alternative means to that end become an attractive to the clergy option.

Since motives often cannot be observed directly, then how do we know what actually motivates nonprofit service providers? If one assumes that the proof of having nonmaterial motives is the fact that the providers established a nonprofit organization whose raison d’être one seeks to explain then such an argument is clearly circular. Why did the moral entrepreneur establish a nonprofit organization? , “maximizing faith”). How do we know the person had such an interest? Because he or she established a nonprofit organization.

In sociological literature, the term “socially constructed” denotes phenomena that have been created by social conventions rather than by natural forces independent of human volition. Unlike natural phenomena, “social constructs” are arbitrary in the sense that they can take different forms, depending on the collective will and social conventions that created them. For a more detailed discussion and application of this method to social science, see Skocpol (1984), Ragin (1987), and also Rueschemeyer, Stephens, and Stephens (1992).

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