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Commitment and community; communes and utopias in sociological perspective.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972.Description: x, 303 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674145763
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HX653 .K35
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.
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Bibliography: p. [270]-286.

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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.