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Child, Curtis – Social Forces, 2010
According to popular accounts, the nonprofit sector has become increasingly commercialized in recent years. This article reviews the empirical literature on the commercialization trend and discusses why it is regarded as significant by scholars of civil society. It then provides fresh analyses of nonprofit revenue streams and concludes that,…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Business, Income, Social Change
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Glick, Jennifer E.; Ruf, Stacey D.; White, Michael J.; Goldscheider, Frances K. – Social Forces, 2006
This paper examines how school engagement influences the timing of family formation for youth. We pay particular attention to variation across four racial/ethnic groups and by generation status, variation that reflects the diversification of U.S. society through immigration. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), we…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Racial Differences, Marriage, Enrollment Influences