Abstract
Part One: The Utopian Faith * A Refuge and a Hope * Society's Maternal Bed: Idealizations of Communal Life Part Two: Lessons of the Past * Commitment: The Problem and the Theory * Live in Love and Union: Commitment Mechanisms in Nineteenth Century Communes * The Comforts of Commitment: Issues in Group Life * Away from Community Part Three: Problems of Today * Retreat from Utopia 8 They Also Serve: Communes with Missions * The Limits of Utopia * Appendix. Sample and Methodology for Study of Nineteenth Century Communes * Bibliography * Notes * Index
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UtopiaPerspective (graphical)SociologyFaithSociological imaginationIndex (typography)Social scienceLawPolitical scienceEpistemologyArtPhilosophy
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(1972).
Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective.
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