The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Michele Lamont New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2000. 391 pp.

The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration.

This article addresses the issue of knowing when one has researched enough – thoroughly, and without missing anything. The author argues that there is not a magic number for the “appropriate” amount of cases. The author further explains using the image of a dartboard, one labeled as “Authority” and the other labeled as “Issues,” as a means of evaluating criteria.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1954774_code1063101.pdf?abstractid=1954774&mirid=5&type=2

How Many Cases Do I Need

Recent studies have started to discuss volunteer tourism and religion, and this study aims to build on this research momentum. The paper explores street-aid volunteer tourism as a micro-niche and, more specifically, Faith-Based Volunteer tourism (FBVT). Drawing on qualitative data, this study explores the activities of three organisations and their volunteers in an international setting. In the process, the author uses the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) to examine the motivations of faith-based volunteer tourist and what these motivations mean in today's secular society. The author confirms that religiosity, which is complex and multi-layered and requires further attention, should be a separate measurement. Thus, a clear framework or understanding of intrinsic/extrinsic or personal/ institutional religious motivations would help better understand religion's complexity and a deeper study of spiritual psychology. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508281.2022.2089818?needAccess=true

Angels of the night: exploring street-aid volunteer tourists and faith-based volunteer tourism

The self-society duality in volunteer tourism: An analytical framework for the (post-)pandemic era

This study examined the internal moral debate that takes place among Israeli men who pay for sex (MWPS) while traveling abroad. We explored how they construct their sense of moral worth and present themselves as moral subjects in light of the intensified stigmatization of their actions. Using the theoretical frameworks of pragmatic morality and boundary work, we conceptualize four main moral justification regimes that MWPS use to construct themselves as moral subjects: Cultural normalization; Conditional freedom of choice; The altruistic act of charity; and Unpacking the Stigma Discourse. The findings highlight how these justification regimes are anchored in three intersecting fields - cultural, spatial, and power relations - which produce various matrices of conflict, compromise, or collaboration in different situations. Thus, the flexible switching between various justification regimes reveals how MWPS define themselves and their activities and negotiate various moral dispositions - akin to various cultural logics - in the context of moral taint and stigma.

The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market: Moral Justification Regimes and Boundary Work Among Israeli Men Who Pay for Sex Abroad.

This article explores what volunteer tourists designate as moral in the practice of volunteering. Findings from in-depth interviews demonstrate how this experience’s moral worth relates to notions ...

Netta Kahana

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The road worth taking, the life worth living, and the person worth being: Morality, authenticity and personhood in volunteer tourism and beyond:

The self-society duality in volunteer tourism: An analytical framework for the (post-)pandemic era