236 Reading List

Reading List

List of readings to be included in reading packet for Sociology 236, Jane Piliavin, fall semester, 2002.

O'Neill, Michael. 1989. The Third America. Chapter 1. The nonprofit world. pp. 1-19.
Knoke, D. and Wood, J.R. 1981. Chapter 1: A theory of voluntary association behavior. pp. 1-29 in Organized for Action: Commitment in Voluntary Associations. New Brunswick N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press.
Berkowitz, B. (1987) Introduction, Pp. 1-10. Local Heroes. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Morrow-Howell, N. and Ozawa, M. N. Helping network: Seniors to seniors. 1987. The Gerontologist, 27, pp. 17-20.
Milligan, S., Maryland, P., Ziegler, H., and Ward, A. Natural helpers as street health workers among the black urban elderly. 1987. The Gerontologist, 27, 712-715
Latane, B., and Darley, J. 1970. Chapters 5 (37-42) and 7(55-67) in The Unresponsive Bystander: Why Doesn't He Help? New York: Appleton.
Sober, E., and Wilson, D.S. 1998. Chapter 7. Three theories of motivation. Pp. 223-248 and notes. And Conclusion: Pluralism pp. 329-337. Unto Others: The evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Jane Mansbridge, The rise and fall of self-interest in the explanation of political life, pp. 3-22. In Beyond Self-Interest, Mansbridge, J. (Ed.)
Christopher Jencks. Varieties of altruism, pp. 54-67 in same
Sober, E. and Wilson, D.S. 1998. Introduction and Chapter1, Altruism as a biological concept. (Pp. 1-26 and notes) Unto Others: The evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Martin, G.B., and Clark, R.D., III 1982. Distress crying in infants: Species and peer specificity. Developmental Psychology, 18, 3-9;
Matthews, K.A., et al. 1981. "Principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others...": The heritability of empathic concern for others. Journal of Personality, 49, 237-247.
Faves, R.A., et al. 1989. Effects of rewards on children's prosocial motivation: A socialization study. Developmental psychology, 25, 509-515;
Smith, C.L. et al. 1979. Children's causal attributions regarding help giving. Child Development, 50, 203-210.
Latane, B. and Dabbs, J.M. 1975. Sex, group size and helping in three cities. Sociometry, 18, 180-194.
Carlo, G., Eisenberg, N., Troyer, D., Switzer, G., and Speer, A. 1991. The altruistic personality: In what contexts is it apparent? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 450-458.
Shotland, R.L., and Straw, M. 1976. Bystander response to an assault: When a man attacks a woman. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 990-999;
Wilson, J.P. 1976. Motivation, modeling, and altruism: A person X situation analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 1078-1086.
Poppendieck, J. 1998. Chapter 8: Charity and dignity (pp. 230-255), Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement. New York: Viking.
Hochschild, A. R. 1979. Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American Journal of Sociology, 85, 551-575;
Stein, M. 1989. Gratitude and attitude: A note on emotional welfare. Social Psychology Quarterly, 52, 242-248.
Friedman, D. and McAdam, D. 1992. Collective identity and activism: Networks, choices and the life of a social movement. pp. 156-173 in Morris, A.D., and Mueller, C.M. Frontiers in Social Movement Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Oliver, P. 1984. "If you don't do it, nobody else will": Active and token contributors to local collective action. American Sociological Review, 49, 601-610.
Marwell, G., and Ames, R.E. 1981. Economists free ride, does anyone else? Journal of Public Economics, 15, 295-310;
Poppendieck, J. 1998. Introduction (pp. 1-19) and Conclusion (pp. 288-318), Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement. New York: Viking.
Clary, E.G., Snyder, M. , Ridge, R.D., Copeland, J., Stukas, A.A., Haugen, J, and Miene, P. 1998. Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1516-1530.
Wharton, C.S. 1991. Why can't we be friends: Expectations versus experiences in the volunteer role. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 20, 79-106. (long but easy reading)
Butterworth, V.A., Simmons, R.G., and Schimmer, M. 1993. When altruism fails: reactions of unrelated bone marrow donors when the recipient dies. Omega, 26, 161-173.
Stukas, Arthur A., E. Gil Clary, and Mark Snyder. 1999a. "The effects of ‘mandatory volunteerism' on intentions to volunteer." Psychological Science, 10: 59-64
Koeske, G.F., and Kelly, T. 1995. The impact of over-involvement on burnout and job satisfaction. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 65, 282-292.
Mickler, S.E., and Rosen, S. 1994. Burnout in spurned medical caregivers and the impact of job expectancy training. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 2110-2131.
Uggen, Christopher and Jennifer Janikula. 1999. Volunteerism and arrest in the transition to adulthood. Social Forces. 78:331-362.
Van Willingham, Marieke. 2000. "Differential benefits of volunteering across the life course". Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 55B: S1-S11.
Piliavin, Jane A. (in press) "Doing well by doing good: Benefits for the benefactor."
Jos, P.H., Tompkins, M.E., and Hays, S. W. 1989. In praise of difficult people: A portrait of the committed whistleblower. Public Administration Review, Nov/Dec, 552-561.
Greenberger, D.B., Miceli, M.P., and Cohen, D.J. 1987. Oppositionists and group norms: The reciprocal influence of whistle-blowers and co-workers. Journal of Business Ethics, 6, 527-542.
Near, J.P., and Micelli, M. P. 1995. Effective whistle-blowing. Academy of Management Review. 20:679-708.
Miethe, T.D. and Rothschild, J. Whistleblowing and the control of organizational misconduct. 1994. Sociological Inquiry, 64, 322-347.

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