Abstract
This paper reviews the social science literature that has appeared in the past two decades on self-help and mutual aid groups. It starts with a brief description of the nature, scope, and magnitude of current self-help mani festations, and a sketch of scholarly work concerning them. Indigenous and largely spontaneous groups organized on the self-help/mutual aid pattern constitute an important variety of informal, voluntary associations in modern societies; they have received little systematic study by social scientists.
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Mutual aidMovement (music)Social movementPolitical sciencePoliticsAestheticsArt
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- 1981
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- 7
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- 1
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- 129-155
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Alfred H. Katz
(1981).
Self-Help and Mutual Aid: An Emerging Social Movement?.
Annual Review of Sociology
, 7
(1)
, 129-155.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.07.080181.001021
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- 10.1146/annurev.so.07.080181.001021