Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective

What makes some communes work, while others fail? Why is it so difficult to put utopian ideals...
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Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Language: English
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Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective by Kanter, Rosabeth Moss

Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective

BD$97.65

Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective

BD$97.65
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01/01/1972
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.52w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780674145764

About the Author
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss: - Rosabeth Moss Kanter is Professor of Sociology and of Organization and Management, Yale University.

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