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Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rosabeth Moss KanterPublish date:1972-01-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674145764ISBN-10:674145763UPC:9780674145764Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:SociologySize:8.29 x 5.52 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC84NFCAT4
What makes some communes work, while others fail? Why is it so difficult to put utopian ideals into practice? In this exciting study of the success or failure of nineteenth-century American Utopias and twentieth-century communes, Rosabeth Moss Kanter combines the results of her first-hand experiences in a variety of contemporary groups with her thorough research on earlier Utopian communities. Convinced that the Utopias of the past offer important models for social organization today, the author also stresses the need for a historical perspective in viewing contemporary movements. Kanter analyzes the ideas and values expressed and developed in communal living, she explores the methods of organization that led to commitment and success or failure in the nineteenth-century, and she deals with the dilemmas and problems that contemporary communities present. The final chapters of this brilliant study, a discussion of contemporary communes, allows the reader to see the similarities as well as the differences between nineteenth and twentieth-century communities.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674145764ISBN-10:674145763UPC:9780674145764Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:SociologySize:8.29 x 5.52 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC84NFCAT4
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss: - Rosabeth Moss Kanter is Professor of Sociology and of Organization and Management, Yale University.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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