Civic engagement in Germany. Topics, assumptions and findings.

Autor/in	Braun, Sebastian
Titel	Civic engagement in Germany. Topics, assumptions and findings. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gesellschaftliches Engagement in Deutschland. Themen, Annahmen und Befunde.
Quelle	Aus: Hofmeister, Wilhelm (Hrsg.); Rüppel, Patrick (Hrsg.): Social cohesion. Addressing social divide in Europe and Asia. Singapur (2014) S. 151-160 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag; Graue Literatur
ISBN	978-981-09-2115-6
Schlagwörter	Soziale Ungleichheit; Soziale Integration; Inklusion; Engagement; Soziale Schicht; Sozialpolitik; Unternehmen; Ehrenamtliche Arbeit; Freiwilligkeit; Vereinsarbeit; Deutschland
Abstract	The 2004 and 2009 waves of the German Survey on Volunteering confirmed that civic engagement in Germany is actually not in such a bad way: among over-14-year-olds, the percentage of people engaged in voluntary social activities actually increased to 36% and has remained constant at this level since then. The data of the German Survey on Volunteering also show that among the 64% of individuals that do not currently engage in volunteering, a significant number of people would be willing to become involved in civic engagement, provided interesting tasks could be found. Here the field of sports and physical exercise still seems to offer the most interesting tasks, as - in terms of volunteering - it is still far ahead of all other social areas such as church and religion, leisure and socializing, culture and music, social activities and politics (cf. Gensicke & Geiss, 2010). These bare-bones statistics of civic engagement now need to be fleshed out by taking a more differentiated approach in examining the institutional framework and the individual and social functions and consequences of civic engagement. Against this background, relevant lines of discussion on civic engagement in Germany will be outlined below and substantiated with the results of selected studies. (geändert). (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2017/4