Voluntarism in Italy: Dynamics, and Social and Historic Processes
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Gerardo Pastore
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2011/96 Language Italian
Pages 14 P. 54-67 File size 204 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2011-096004
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Voluntarism has undergone many changes in time, receiving external impulses and expressing internal needs tied to the services and work required. Voluntary service has gone from being a-specific and professionally general, to requiring a more specialized work division. The logic of «pure gratuity», that guided volunteers in the past, is ever more frequently substituted by a principle of reciprocity. This essay offers a vast critical historical reconstruction of the events of this phenomenon in Italy, and proposes an analytical examination of the main orientations that have characterized voluntarism in Italy throughout the years. Voluntarism has undergone many changes in time, receiving external impulses and expressing internal needs tied to the services and work required. Voluntary service has gone from being a-specific and professionally general, to requiring a more specialized work division. The logic of «pure gratuity», that guided volunteers in the past, is ever more frequently substituted by a principle of reciprocity. This essay offers a vast critical historical reconstruction of the events of this phenomenon in Italy, and proposes an analytical examination of the main orientations that have characterized voluntarism in Italy throughout the years.
Gerardo Pastore, Il volontariato in Italia: dinamiche e processi storicosociali in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 96/2011, pp 54-67, DOI: 10.3280/SR2011-096004