Volunteers lavish detailed attention on subjects within their narrowly defined scope

Evidence

Debbie, a sporty mom who wore sweatshirts and sneakers to Parent League meetings, chuckled while announcing this, as if to say that it was humorous, but understandable, that a group of ten adults should be so concerned with all the different types of dogs. When a topic was within the group’s scope as members defined it, discussion was lavishly detailed. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 252

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concrete small tasks recruit first-time volunteers better than appeals to duty — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 188