Despite major efforts, the gap between scholars and practitioners in the fields of nonprofit and voluntary action research remains unbridged. A recent volume by New York University cultural historian Thomas Bender suggests that the problem is due less to the peculiarities of these fields than it is to the institutional configuration of American intellectual life. Changes in occupational structures since the 1 970s that have led people with advanced academic training to seek careers in community-based nonprofit organizations may constitute a basis for reconstructing American public culture.
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