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Volunteers: Reflexive Social Agents

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posted on 2023-05-22, 12:53 authored by Christine StirlingChristine Stirling
Community participation is increasingly seen as a valuable addition to service provision. But we lack adequate understanding of what links individuals to community participation and how this influences community participation. In this chapter I outline a Reflexive Social Volunteer Agent model as an explanation of volunteering. The model uses a critical realist framework to incorporate the concepts of reflexive individuals, interests, agency and identities to understand volunteer involvement with health services. The model outlined will be useful for health services and policy makers that desire to generate or harness community participation for services.

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Publication title

Health and Well-Being: A Social and Cultural Perspective

Editors

Q Le

Pagination

47-56

ISBN

9781611226485

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

Nova Science Publishers

Place of publication

New York

Extent

24

Rights statement

Copyright 2011 Nova Science Publishers.

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Social structure and health

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