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Sociologists Study Volunteerism

By Anne W. Howard

Volunteers: A Social Profile
by Marc A. Musick and John Wilson

The study of volunteerism is a rather new development, "in part because the volunteer role has only recently become fully institutionalized and in part because of a tendency to marginalize volunteer work as a leisure-time pursuit," write Marc A. Musick, a professor of sociology at the University...

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