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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... MATTER METAPHOR When I worked on this book intensively for a year or so , I hit on a metaphor for understanding GAs in the VNPS that I liked very much . This penultimate metaphor was the bright matter versus dark matter metaphor based ...
... matter " of the VNPS . Many researchers in our field cannot seem to see them — to note their existence , numbers , and impact . The term dark matter is an analogy to the similar unobserved dark matter in the astrophysical universe ...
... matter of the VNPS is far greater in total number of VGs than is the bright matter . Coincidentally , the relative magnitudes of light matter to dark matter are about the same estimate as in the astrophysical universe ( Longair , 1996 ...
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Definitions and Metaphors | 7 |
Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
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Poverty and the Third Way Colin C Williams,Colin C. Williams,Jan Windebank No preview available - 2004 |