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Author Coles, Robert.

Title The call of service : a witness to idealism / Robert Coles.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  361.973 C679c 1993    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxviii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-300) and index.
Contents 1. Method -- 2. Kinds of service -- Social and political struggle -- Community servie -- Personal gestures and encounters -- Charity -- Religiously sanctioned action -- Service to country -- 3. Satisfaction -- Something done, someone reached -- Moral purpose -- Personal affirmation -- Stoic endurance -- A boost to success -- Interlude: mentoring -- 4. Hazards -- Weariness and resignation -- Cynicism -- Arrogance, anger and bitterness -- Despair -- Depression ("burnout") -- 5. Doing and learning -- 6. Young idealism -- 7. Older idealism -- Interlude: what they mean to us -- 8. Consequences -- The longer run -- The larger realm -- Epilogue.
Summary Sheds light on the individual urge toward idealistic action--what inspires and sustains it, how it is expressed, and why it is necessary.
Subject Social service -- United States.
Volunteer workers in social service -- United States.
Voluntarism -- United States.
Vocation.
Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
Vocation. (OCoLC)fst01168466
Voluntarism. (OCoLC)fst01168976
Volunteer workers in social service. (OCoLC)fst01169103
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 0395636477
9780395636473
0395710847 (pbk.)
9780395710845 (pbk.)

 
    
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