Religious capital and intergenerational transmission of volunteering as correlates of civic Engagement

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 983-1002

  Caputo, Richard K ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activists; Civic mindedness; Parental influences; Religious capital; Socialization; Voluntarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449572677     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764008323990     Document Type: Article

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