Do Unto Others
Subtitle: Extraordinary Acts of Ordinary People
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780813339849
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social theory; Social, group or collective psychology; Philanthropy & Charity; Conduct of life; Social Science; Sociology; Social Psychology; Holocaust; Psychology; Case studies; Altruism; Caring; Helping behavior
First sentence: In June 1942 my family, including my grandparents, was ordered by the Nazis to move to the ghetto in the small town of Bobowa, situated near the Slovak border in southern Poland.
Description: "In Do Unto Others, Holocaust survivor and sociologist Samuel Oliner explores what gives an individual a sense of social responsibility, what leads to the development of care and compassion, and what it means to put the welfare of others ahead of one's own. Having been saved himself from the Nazis at age 12 as the result of one non-Jewish family's altruism, Oliner has made a lifelong study of the nature of altruism.

Weaving together moving personal testimony and years of observation, Oliner makes sense of the factors that elicit altruistic behavior - exceptional acts by ordinary people in ordinary times."--BOOK JACKET.