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Diversity of voluntary organizations and networks at local level: Case studies on selected service-providing organizations in Seoul

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2015, 13(1), pp.39~76
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Lee Seon Mi 1

1서울여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Korean civil society has been marked by the dichotomy of (radical) civil movement and (conservative) service-providing, which seems to fade out and give way to diversity at local level. The study aims at investigating diverse types of volunteer work and network of service-providing organizations dedicated to welfare of their communities. We selected 22 cases of the service-providing organizations working in Seoul, conducted research on their volunteer works and networks. The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Service-providing organizations for community are diverse in both political orientation and organizational type. They can be differentiated into 4 types; (2) 'Locality' which they utilize in presenting themselves has three factors, which composition defines each type of organizations. They include locality as member with they work, locality as space where they work, and locality as agenda for they work; (3) High motivation toward advanced training of their members for the volunteer actions is shown by the type of organizations based on highly community-specific vision and local residents in its members, whereas traditional type of service club presents the lowest level of motivation toward the training for more effective actions; (4) The 4 different types organizations are differentiated from each other in their volunteer works: supporting reintegration of the social minority groups into labor market (type 1), activities and education for environmental protection (type 2), charity for the poor, the disabled, the elderly (type 3), consulting children and other cultural activities for social minority (type 4). Accordingly, each organization utilizes different networks for getting its volunteer works done successfully. In conclusion, the author summarizes the main findings, and comes up with some suggestions for volunteering partnership in communities.

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