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The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies

The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies PDF Author: David Horton Smith
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004371893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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"Reviewed here is global research on how 13 types of Voluntary Membership Associations (MAs) have significantly or substantially had global impacts on human history, societies, and life. Such outcomes have occurred especially in the past 200+ years since the Industrial Revolution circa 1800 CE, and its accompanying Organizational Revolution. Emphasized are longer-term, historical, and societal or multinational impacts of MAs, rather than more micro-level (individual) or meso-level (organizational) outcomes. MAs are distinctively structured, with power coming from the membership, not top-down. The author has characterized MAs as the dark matter of the nonprofit/third sector, using an astrophysical metaphor. Astrophysicists have shown that most physical matter in the universe is dark in the sense of being unseen, not stars or planets."--Page 4 of cover