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The Evolution of Self-Help

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  • © 2007

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  1. Matthew E. Archibald
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Demography of Self-Help

    • Matthew E. Archibald
    Pages 1-24

  3. Defining Self-Help: How Does a Movement Become an Institution?

    • Matthew E. Archibald
    Pages 25-51

  4. From Small Beginnings: Growth and Diversification

    • Matthew E. Archibald
    Pages 53-75

  5. Legitimation: The Paradox of Public Recognition of Self-Help

    • Matthew E. Archibald
    Pages 77-100

  6. The Evolution of Public Recognition and Its Consequences

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    Pages 101-118

  7. Resources: How Competition Selects Only the Fittest Organizations

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    Pages 119-134

  8. Conclusion and Future Directions

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    Pages 135-156

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 157-187
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This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories. Looking at a fifty-year period, Archibald charts the formation and dissolution of over 500 medical, academic, and popular organizations. He explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for all manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems.

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"Archibald has quantitatively estimated the legitimacy of self-help organizations via a comprehensive, careful, and original examination of medical, academic, popular, and political opinion on these groups (in newspapers, journals, and congressional hearings), and analyzed competition for resources among the groups utilizing all of these data. This book is a very relevant reference tool for anyone interested in the phenomenon of self-help in the U.S."

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MATTHEW E. ARCHIBALD is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University, USA.

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