Learning to Care : Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference.

Learning to Care : Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference.

The author, a noted sociologist of religion, attempts to ascertain what determines the qualities of kindness and caring in modern society. He examines a cross-section of American youth to discover how the habit of caring is developed, and how parents and organizations instill morals in the young.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wuthnow, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Voluntarism > United States.
Teenage volunteers in social service > United States.
Moral development > United States.
Caring.
Helping behavior.
Caring
Helping behavior
Moral development
Teenage volunteers in social service
Voluntarism
United States
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Summary:The author, a noted sociologist of religion, attempts to ascertain what determines the qualities of kindness and caring in modern society. He examines a cross-section of American youth to discover how the habit of caring is developed, and how parents and organizations instill morals in the young.
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages)
ISBN:9780198025900
0198025904
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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