SELFISH GIVING? VOLUNTEERING MOTIVATIONS AND THE MORALITY OF GIVING SEBIČNO DAJANJE? MOTIVI PROSTOVOLJCEV IN MORALNOST OBDAROVANJA

Following gift exchange theories, this paper explores the concept of giving in volunteering for community care in London. By looking at volunteering motivations, it explores three facets of volunteering: 1) an instrumental use of volunteering as a substitute for paid work, 2) the perceived power inequality between service users and volunteers, 3) the role of voluntary organisations that sets the morality of giving. It concludes that volunteering is characterised by its dual nature, and there is a constant process of negotiation of meaning and appropriation of its expression. *** Prispevek sledi teorijam o menjavi darov in se poglablja v koncept prostovoljskega darovanja na podrocju socialnega dela v Londonu. Ob analizi motivacije prostovoljcev se posveca trem vidikom: 1. instrumentalizaciji prostovoljstva kot nadomestka za placano deo, 2. percepciji neenakosti v primerjavi prejemnikov storitev in prostovoljcev, 3. vlogi prostovoljskih organizacij, ki vzpostavljajo moralnost darovanja. Osrednja ugotovitev clanka je, da je prostovoljstvo v svojem bistvu dihotomno in se udejanja v nenehnem procesu pogajanja in prilagajanja pomenov.