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ISBN: 022629711X 9780226297118 9780226297088 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago
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Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations-and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans were, in Tocqueville's words, "forever forming associations." In The Making of Tocqueville's America, Kevin Butterfield argues that to understand this, we need to first ask: what did membership really mean to the growing number of affiliated Americans? Butterfield explains that the first generations of American citizens found in the concept of membership-in churches, fraternities, reform societies, labor unions, and private business corporations-a mechanism to balance the tension between collective action and personal autonomy, something they accomplished by emphasizing law and procedural fairness. As this post-Revolutionary procedural culture developed, so too did the legal substructure of American civil society. Tocqueville, then, was wrong to see associations as the training ground for democracy, where people learned to honor one another's voices and perspectives. Rather, they were the training ground for something no less valuable to the success of the American democratic experiment: increasingly formal and legalistic relations among people.
Societies --- Voluntarism --- Membership --- History --- Political aspects --- democracy, america, law, clubs, community, homosocial, social life, voluntary associations, membership, affiliations, church, fraternities, reform societies, labor unions, private business corporations, collective action, personal autonomy, fairness, conformity, legalism, relationships, diversity, voluntarism, nonfiction, history, politics, government, organizations, shareholders, citizenship, belonging, constitutionalism, revolutionary war.
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Covers marketing topics from an interdisciplinary perspective and provides a forum for researchers interested in examining these issues from practical and theoretical viewpoints.
Marketing --- Nonprofit organizations --- Marketing. --- Business, general. --- Business, general --- Consumer goods --- Domestic marketing --- Retail marketing --- Retail trade --- Corporations, Nonprofit --- Non-profit organizations --- Non-profit sector --- Non-profits --- Nonprofit sector --- Nonprofits --- Not-for-profit organizations --- NPOs --- Organizations, Nonprofit --- Tax-exempt organizations --- Industrial management --- Aftermarkets --- Selling --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- marketing --- markten --- markets --- overheidsbedrijven --- public enterprises --- semiprivate organizations --- overheidsorganisaties --- government organizations --- Marketing (General) --- Marketing (algemeen) --- Associations sans but lucratif --- Màrqueting --- Entitats sense ànim de lucre --- Màrqueting. --- Entitats sense ànim de lucre.
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