Patricia Snell Herzog
Patricia Snell Herzog is the Melvin Simon Chair and Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI. Prior to joining IUPUI, Herzog was an Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Arkansas. Herzog completed her doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Notre Dame, while also serving as the Assistant Director for the Center for the study of Religion and Society. Afterward, Herzog was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.
Herzog’s interests include social scientific investigations of charitable giving, youth and emerging adults, and religiosity. Her research focuses on how people are shaped by and shape their organizational contexts, with particular emphasis on understanding motivations and social supports for voluntary participation in religious and charitable organizations, as well as generational changes in organizational values.
With a commitment to outreach, Herzog has delivered numerous research-related talks to a variety of organizational audiences, and her research has received media attention in the New York Times, CNBC, ABC News, Seattle Times, The Atlantic, The Foundation Review, Philanthropy News Digest, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Nonprofit Times, and NPR.
Herzog’s interests include social scientific investigations of charitable giving, youth and emerging adults, and religiosity. Her research focuses on how people are shaped by and shape their organizational contexts, with particular emphasis on understanding motivations and social supports for voluntary participation in religious and charitable organizations, as well as generational changes in organizational values.
With a commitment to outreach, Herzog has delivered numerous research-related talks to a variety of organizational audiences, and her research has received media attention in the New York Times, CNBC, ABC News, Seattle Times, The Atlantic, The Foundation Review, Philanthropy News Digest, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Nonprofit Times, and NPR.
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Chapter 3 –Types of American Givers: Variations in Approaches to Giving The how question of American generosity is investigated in chapter 3. An innovative analytical method, called fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, is used to construct Weberian-inspired ideal types along with an atypical group that does not fit into one of these types. The types show how processes of giving group together into discernible combinations regarding the degree to which giving is routine or spontaneous, consciously decided or “just happens,” predetermined or situationally-dependent. Four types of givers are found: Planned, Habitual, Selective, and Impulsive, plus non-discernable-pattern givers labeled as Atypical. The approach represents a combination of Bourdieu-inspired habitus, Freud-inspired consciousness, cognitive theory–inspired behavioral regulation, and through focus on actualization of giving behaviors rather than only intentions to be generous. Particular attention is given to the importance of income, education, and religion in differing approaches to generosity behaviors.
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This edited volume is the result of a special issue that invited social scientific insights on responses to these questions. The background for this volume, summarized below, is the evolving life course developmental processes, as well as the culmination of numerous social and cultural changes in recent decades and their implications for socialization of religiosity, spirituality, and generosity. The included chapters focus on the faith and giving of youth and emerging adults, in the United States and internationally. The emphasis is on research that contributes breadth to social scientific understandings of religion, charitable giving, volunteering, generosity, youth, and emerging adults. We are especially interested in trends related to participation in religious and civic organizations, including changing cultural structures, beliefs, and orientations to faith and giving in less formal or non-organizational contexts.
Chapter 3 –Types of American Givers: Variations in Approaches to Giving The how question of American generosity is investigated in chapter 3. An innovative analytical method, called fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, is used to construct Weberian-inspired ideal types along with an atypical group that does not fit into one of these types. The types show how processes of giving group together into discernible combinations regarding the degree to which giving is routine or spontaneous, consciously decided or “just happens,” predetermined or situationally-dependent. Four types of givers are found: Planned, Habitual, Selective, and Impulsive, plus non-discernable-pattern givers labeled as Atypical. The approach represents a combination of Bourdieu-inspired habitus, Freud-inspired consciousness, cognitive theory–inspired behavioral regulation, and through focus on actualization of giving behaviors rather than only intentions to be generous. Particular attention is given to the importance of income, education, and religion in differing approaches to generosity behaviors.
This edited volume is the result of a special issue that invited social scientific insights on responses to these questions. The background for this volume, summarized below, is the evolving life course developmental processes, as well as the culmination of numerous social and cultural changes in recent decades and their implications for socialization of religiosity, spirituality, and generosity. The included chapters focus on the faith and giving of youth and emerging adults, in the United States and internationally. The emphasis is on research that contributes breadth to social scientific understandings of religion, charitable giving, volunteering, generosity, youth, and emerging adults. We are especially interested in trends related to participation in religious and civic organizations, including changing cultural structures, beliefs, and orientations to faith and giving in less formal or non-organizational contexts.
What is sociological about spatial context? This is a question which the original founders of sociology attempted to answer in multiple ways and which many prominent social thinkers continue to ponder. However, much of contemporary sociological empirical work is either implicitly aspatial or lacks adequate attention to the spatial patterning present in the data.
This Special Issue includes social scientific insights on responses to these questions. We provide a variety of angles on the faith and giving of youth and emerging adults, in the United States and internationally. The emphasis is on research that contributes generally to social scientific understandings of religion, charitable giving, volunteering, generosity, youth, and emerging adults. We were especially interested in trends related to participation in religious and civic organizations, including changing cultural structures, beliefs, and orientations to faith and giving in less formal or non-organizational contexts.
Two-thirds of Americans agree that it is very important for them to be a generous person, according to the Science of Generosity survey.
Another quarter of Americans were neutral; just 10 percent disagreed that generosity was not a very important quality.
But the truth appears much different.
Forty-five percent of Americans, including nearly four in 10 who said a generous self-identity was important to them, actually gave no money to charity in the past year, the same survey found.
Less than a quarter of Americans gave more than $500.
What we end up with is a nation where a relatively few people give freely and abundantly, while most of us give little or nothing, Patricia Snell Herzog and Heather E. Price report in their new book, “American Generosity: Who Gives and Why.”
The two researchers, co-investigators with the Science of Generosity Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, delve into the survey findings and scores of personal interviews to present a portrait of the state of American giving.
Patricia Herzog and Heather Price takes
a comprehensive approach to studying generosity
in the United States. Drawing on
a nationally representative survey and indepth
interviews with a subset of survey
respondents, both funded by the University
of Notre Dame’s Science of Generosity Initiative,
Herzog and Price first systematically
describe the level of generosity among Americans.
The remainder of the book largely
focuses on patterns in generosity, in particular
addressing questions about who is most
likely to be generous and why people are
generous. The authors seek both to inform
scholarship on generosity and to provide
practitioners with insights into how to persuade
people to engage in more generosity.
deep and incisive examination of the patterns
and causes of generosity in the United States and
a thoughtful development and testing of new and
refined frameworks to understand the phenomenon
of generosity in general. While geared primarily
to scholars exploring these issues, it will
also definitely prove of interest for fundraisers
and other nonprofit leaders looking to strengthen
and deepen their resource development strategies.
But for its core academic audience, American
Generosity capably achieves what it set out to do
— to provide a rigorous, data-driven grounding
for future research into the science of generosity.