Dan Sundblom

• Master of Science
• PhD Student at Åbo Akademi University

This chapter studies the individual life cycles of specific Membership Associations (MAs) as units of analysis, not the collective life cycles of MAs, as prevalence rates across territories as units of analysis (Handbook Chapter 50). Life cycles of MAs are seen as usual or average patterns of origins/formation, growth, stability, merger, decline, a...

This paper elaborates the instrumental-expressive typology to explore how endogenous and exogenous factors are linked to the dissolution of voluntary associations. Starting from a separation between associations' emphasis on societal influence and/or service delivery, or socializing in their activity, three categories along the instrumental-express...

This article deals with the survival and dissolution of voluntary associations within the framework of Finnish civil society. It explores the differences in dissolution between new and old forms of voluntary associations by defining two subgroups based on their date of foundation: those founded before 1990 and those founded since then. The research...

In our article, we develop the concept of safety capital, which on the individual level includes internalized safety knowledge, behavior, and attitudes. The concept is useful both in terms of academic safety research and applied research. We strive to create a foundation for a multidisciplinary understanding of safety that is both focused on the in...

This study inspects the reasons as for why voluntary associations end their activity and dissolve as legal entities. The empirical data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with former leaders of 30 organizations in Estonia and Finland. To appreciate the sector's diversity, the analysis makes a distinction between associations with mainl...

The interdisciplinary research field of nonprofit and voluntary/third/nonprofit/civil society sector studies first became formally organized with the founding of ARNOVA (www.arnova.org) in 1971 by Smith (2003). In the subsequent 43 years the field has developed greatly worldwide, as has been shown by the formation of about 50 researcher association...

The relationship between consumer behavior and social structures has thus been the subject of debate in sociology in recent times. What supporters of the different perspectives seem to agree on is that there has been a shift from a structural consumption culture to a culturally controlled consumption culture. The only question is to what extent thi...

The focus of this essay is the importance of social networks for social movements and how social movements have been analyzed with an emphasis on social networks. The essay presents relevant sociological literature that deals with social movements from a so-called network perspective. The importance of social networks for social movements is examin...