Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland /

• Main Author: Sokolowski, S. Wojciech. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Economics.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Political Science.; Economics, general.; Business and Management, general.
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Focusing on service-providing organizations established by health and human service professionals in post-Communist Poland, this book adds a new dimension to the sociological study of voluntary organizations. The author investigates the motives and interests of the people who establish these organiz...

Table of Contents:

• What Is to Be Explained and why?
• Professional Aspirations to Class Power
• Professional Innovation and Information Gap
• Organizations and Social Construction of Expert Commodity
• Organizations and Social Processing of Information
• Professional Service and Public Benefit Status
• Toward a Partial Theory of the Origins of Social Proximity Organizations.