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Author Kanter, Rosabeth Moss.

Title Commitment and community : communes and utopias in sociological perspective / Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1972.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  335.9 K139co 1972    ---  Lib Use Only
Description x, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-286) and index.
Contents Refuge and a hope -- Society's maternal bed: idealization of communal life -- Commitment: the problem and the theory -- Live in love and union: commitment mechanisms in nineteenth century communes -- Comforts of commitment: issues in group life -- Away from community -- Retreat from Utopia -- They also serve: communes with missions -- Limits of Utopia.
Summary Combines work on American Utopian communities in the 19th century with the modern commune movement. Those interested in the older communities will learn much about the present movements while readers wanting information on communes today will find it, but with a distinctly historical perspective.
Subject Collective settlements -- United States -- History.
Utopias.
ISBN 0674145755
9780674145757

 
    
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