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compared to their more community- or religion-oriented counterparts. The consequences of
moral worldviews for developing adult volunteering networks and their implications for actual
volunteering behavior should be the subject of future research.
All sociologists agree that networks matter. But it is time to problematize the formation
of social networks in order to gain a fuller understanding of their emergence. Gathering network
data at multiple survey waves should be a high priority for future data collections in order to
move from philosophical discussion to a more empirically grounded perspective. Our current
theories often take cultural causes seriously but fail to integrate them into empirical models.
There is every reason to believe that culture exists not only “out there” as codes or narratives but
“in here” in the form of schemas or habitus and that this internalized culture plays a role in
actors’ everyday choices (Bourdieu 1984; DiMaggio 1997; Lizardo 2006; Strauss and Quinn
1997). For cultural sociologists, a truly cultural account of motivation is clearly preferable to the
rational-choice default which so often quietly colonizes our work (Calhoun 1991; Emirbayer and
Goodwin 1994; Smith 2003). This study is but one step in helping develop such an account.
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