Volunteers uniformly translate every civic problem into a request for donated personal time
Evidence
In contrast, all of the volunteers said that the way citizens can work on the homelessness issue is by donating time to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen ^ volunteering with a group. Whether the problem was illiteracy, pollution, homelessness, poverty, lack of child care, disability, or poor schools, volunteers’ solution was to think about taking time out of their busy days, to donate an hour or two a day. And some other people interviewed in the larger study, who were not engaged in community a¡airs at all, pondered o¡ering a homeless person a couch in their apartments, or giving homeless people spare change ^ one-onone care. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 111
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the moral-panic material: an orientation toward a problem dictates the whole repertoire of acceptable responses, collapsing diverse issues into one solution type.
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 111