Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss

ISBN 10: 0674145763 / ISBN 13: 9780674145764

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1972

N° de réf. du vendeur 0674145763-3-32530139

Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur: Rosabeth Moss Kanter is Professor of Sociology and of Organization and Management, Yale University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Commitment and Community: Communes and ...
Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Date d'édition : 1972
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good