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The transmission, acquisition, and creation of civic culture: AmeriCorps national and community service in a pluralistic society.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The transmission, acquisition, and creation of civic culture: AmeriCorps national and community service in a pluralistic society./
Author:	Trombley, Guy Michael.
Description:	344 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Marion Lundy Dobbert; R. Michael Paige.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3010585
ISBN:	9780493200866

The transmission, acquisition, and creation of civic culture: AmeriCorps national and community service in a pluralistic society.
Trombley, Guy Michael.

The transmission, acquisition, and creation of civic culture: AmeriCorps national and community service in a pluralistic society. - 344 p.

Advisers: Marion Lundy Dobbert; R. Michael Paige.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2001.

Civic dialogue in the United States is presently concerned with the dominant patterns of "radical individualism," of "pluralistic fragmentation," and of "civic disenfranchisement" disintegrating national civic culture (Bellah et al., 1985; Rosaldo, 1997; Tocqueville, New York). A 1998 Gallop poll on volunteering among 18--24 year olds shows a decline from 45 percent to 38 percent in the previous two years. The withdrawal of youth people from civic life threatens a stable and future democratic way of life (Barber & Battistoni, 1993; Boyte & Chatten Kari, 1996). The conventional efforts of public education, governmental programs, and private non-profit organizations fail to counter the forces of civic disintegration (Lewis, 1988; Swift, 1990; Butts, 1989; Eberly, 1998). Experiments with non-formal participatory civic education models in the late 1990's endeavor to reverse these trends and revitalize the nation's civic culture. National and community service partnerships are forming between the young people of the AmeriCorps and nonprofit agencies across the U.S. President Clinton's charged the AmeriCorps to reestablish "the ties that bind this nation together" by rebuilding local neighborhoods and communities. This dissertation focuses on the AmeriCorps Members' "year-of-service" and its role in the transmission, acquisition, and creation of a national, inclusive and civic culture.

ISBN: 9780493200866Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The transmission, acquisition, and creation of civic culture: AmeriCorps national and community service in a pluralistic society.
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