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Social and Behavioral Sciences

West Virginia University

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1997

Voluntary action

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Digital Science: Electronic Association And Groupware In Facilitating Third Sector Research, Roger A. Lohmann Dec 1997

Digital Science: Electronic Association And Groupware In Facilitating Third Sector Research, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In thinking about the application of computers and the internet technology to problems of association, collaboration and civil society we need to get beyond the current state of mimicking existing social processes and discover new ways to extend and enhance those social processes.


The Future Of The Third Sector, Roger A. Lohmann Sep 1997

The Future Of The Third Sector, Roger A. Lohmann

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The U.S. "nonprofit sector" and other forms of contemporary national third sectors which are currently spreading around the world arose in a unique historical moment and for distinct historical reasons and are unlikely to outlast that moment in history. Voluntary action on the other hand has deep roots reaching far back in human history and is likely to be around far into the future.