Grassroots AssociationsGrassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he sees as integral to a postmodern society moving towards participatory democracy, self-determinism and individual choice. |
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David Horton Smith. MODERATE AMOUNTS OF IDEOLOGY Most research attention regarding guidance systems has been given to the ideologies of GAs and supralocal associations . Group ideology can be defined roughly as values and beliefs that ...
... ideology and main- tain such an ideology over time . Polymorphic GAs , thus , tend to have more extensive ideologies than do similar monomorphic GAS . In the Boy Scouts , for example , local troops as GAs use printed materials such as ...
... ideology for a GA of dwarfs and midgets ( Ablon , 1981 ) , a " one cannot help oneself " ideology for habitual alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous as peer - helping GAS ( Rudy , 1986 ) , a “ sunshine is healthful " ideology for nudists ...
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Definitions and Metaphors | 7 |
Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
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