ETHNIC IDENTITY, DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL COHESION THROUGH VOLUNTEERING: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THEORETICAL CONCEPTS APPLIED TO CULTURAL NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS IN SOCIETY
Publisher/Sponsor:
Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR)
Author:
Arai, Susan
This paper presents a conceptual model that points to the potential incoherence among these concepts and discusses the extent to which participation in the public sphere through nonprofit cultural institutions supports assimilation and acculturation or the maintenance of ethnic identity (diversity). In doing so, this paper connects the tensions between ethnic identity and acculturation to a critical discussion of volunteering, social capital and social cohesion. Abstract of a paper presented at the 10th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research.
Publication Date:
2002
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