Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective 0674145763, 9780674145764

What makes some communes work, while others fail? Why is it so difficult to put utopian ideals into practice? Rosabeth K

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Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Table of contents :
Part One The Utopian Faith
1 A Refuge and a Hope
2 Society's Maternal Bed: Idealizations of Communal Life
Part Two Lessons of the Past
3 Commitment: The Problem and the Theory
4 Live in Love and Union: Commitment Mechanisms in Nineteenth Century Communes
5 The Comforts of Commitment: Issues in Group Life
6 Away from Community
Part Three Problems of Today
7 Retreat from Utopia
8 They Also Serve: Communes with Missions
9 The Limits of Utopia
Appendix. Sample and Methodology for Study of Nineteenth Century Communes
Bibliography
Notes
Index

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