But as Rauschenberg's fame grew, he was seen as a serious artist with a social and political vocation; the secret love of his early art diffused into vagueness.
Today the extent of official literacy varies enormously, even within a single region, depending not only on the area's level of development but also on factors such as social status, gender, vocation, and the various criteria by which a given society understands and measures literacy.
Helen Fox, in her insightful book, Their Highest Vocation: Social Justice and the Millennial Generation, hails the virtues of our rising generation as one that is inspired to make the world more just and equitable.
Some personalists note that man's social nature and his vocation to inter-personal communion are not the same thing.
Augsburg grew from the Norwegian Free Church movement, congregations independent of the state committed to autonomy and a concept of vocation contributing social improvement.
For more than two centuries, we have refused to believe that our past dictates our future, that our social standing decides our vocation and that our family name determines our legacy.
So far, however, it has not strayed far from the traditional story of powerful men, risk takers by vocation, defying the social morality that would condemn them for betraying their marriage vows, in Schwartzenegger's case, spectacularly so.
The main reasons for choosing medicine as a profession were "to contribute towards the welfare of the public" (60%), "self-realization" (48%), "vocation" (34%) and "social recognition" (13%).
Involuntary career choices may be the result of, for example, monetary restrictions, social pressure to choose a certain vocation, or certain forms of discrimination constituting barriers for a person to choose a desired vocation (Lent et al. [2000]).
