NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s well documented in studies in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and even neuroscience that shaming, blaming, and guilting someone shuts down the center of their brain responsible for learning and growth. What values are central to this world? What values are central to this world? How would people feel?

Sociology 123

Sociology Culture Activism Values 123

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2024

Dukes’ contentions were seconded by her co-panelist, Northwestern University sociology professor Aldon Morris, who observed that Coretta Scott King was “more militant than MLK — not just a chandelier hanging on his arm.” Organizing is in our DNA,” she said. Sound familiar?

Sociology 52

Sociology Leadership Participation and motivation Law 52

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? The second wasn’t fully accomplished: to understand how gender dimorphism, in which too often women are dominated or considered of lesser value, became the cultural norm. Come on, admit it.

Leadership 52

Leadership Sociology Culture Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Thus, despite their energy and commitment, sooner or later their power is crippled by what feminist sociologist Jo Freeman called the “tyranny of structurelessness.” Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972/73): 151–64. So why don’t we build one?

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Universities Governance Civil Society 93

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

New Brunswick is home to Canada’s largest oil refinery, which employs more than 4,000 full-time workers, produces over half the province’s export value—and emits 3 million tons of carbon annually. Will the province adapt by diversifying its energy sector and building a green economy? Critics of the report have not been hard to find.

Energy 98

Energy Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

Two other uses of the concept arise around the same time: Emile Durkheim’s sociological theory of social cohesion and the Marxist vision of the labor movement’s solidarity as an engine for change. Capitalism reduces everything to its exchange value. We are social beings, and we’re interdependent. It drives all of us.

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Poverty Sociology 116