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- Title
TRENDS IN VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS OF AMERICAN ADULTS: REPLICATION BASED ON SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL SAMPLE SURVEYS.
- Authors
Hyman, Herbert H.; Wright, Charles R.
- Abstract
A small but noteworthy increase in the percentage of American adults who belong to voluntary associations has occurred since the mid-1950's (the date of an earlier study of this topic by the authors), as documented through several replications of national sample surveys. These same replications also confirm a major generalization of the earlier study that such membership is less common than had been assumed; indeed, voluntary association membership is not characteristic o/the majority of American adults. Data from the replications confirm the previously demonstrated relationship between membership and major socioeconomic characteristics; but subgroup trends suggest that during the more recent period there has been a sharper growth in associational membership among the lower status groups. Although the findings are not completely consistent, there also seems to have been a sharper growth in association memberships on the part of Negroes. All of these findings, like those in the earlier study which has been replicated, are based on secondary analysis of national sample surveys. These social trends should be systematically measured and documented in the future by additional replications and new primary surveys.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; MEMBERSHIP; REPLICATION (Experimental design); SURVEYS; AFRICAN Americans
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1971, Vol 36, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2094038