Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves
ISBN: 9781400820573
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Volunteerism -- United States; Helping behavior; Caring; Individualism -- United States;

Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.

Robert Wuthnow is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.

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