TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustained Community Theater Participation as Civil Society Involvement
AU - Forenza, Brad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - Community theaters proliferate in every state in the nation, yet they are rarely considered in civil society research. Participation in civil society is capable of producing individual (psychological empowerment) and community-level outcomes, yet less is known about how community theaters might be capable of producing the same. Guided by the empirically tested dimensions of intra-organizational empowerment, this qualitative study interrogates four internal processes of voluntary membership in a community theater (shared beliefs, opportunity role structure, social support, and leadership). Directed content analysis of 14 in-depth interviews support and extend our understanding of existing theory for this less examined population. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.
AB - Community theaters proliferate in every state in the nation, yet they are rarely considered in civil society research. Participation in civil society is capable of producing individual (psychological empowerment) and community-level outcomes, yet less is known about how community theaters might be capable of producing the same. Guided by the empirically tested dimensions of intra-organizational empowerment, this qualitative study interrogates four internal processes of voluntary membership in a community theater (shared beliefs, opportunity role structure, social support, and leadership). Directed content analysis of 14 in-depth interviews support and extend our understanding of existing theory for this less examined population. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.
KW - associational membership
KW - civil society
KW - community theater
KW - organizational empowerment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019018099&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0899764016660385
DO - 10.1177/0899764016660385
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019018099
SN - 0899-7640
VL - 46
SP - 549
EP - 566
JO - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
JF - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -