Communes: Creating And Managing The Collective Life
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Pages: Good
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What happens when individuals abandon the boundaries of private life to build something radically shared? Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life is a landmark sociological study that chronicles the history, structure, and inner workings of communal living in America, from the utopian experiments of the nineteenth century to the countercultural communes of the 1960s and 70s. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, drawing on her research at Brandeis University, presents a rigorous yet accessible examination of how intentional communities are formed, sustained, and — just as often — dissolved, mapping the social and psychological forces that bind people together in pursuit of a shared ideal. Kanter argues with scholarly precision that commitment, cohesion, and social control are the invisible architecture of any successful commune, and her analytical framework remains as relevant to organisational theory as it does to alternative social movements. Written with the clarity and authority of a sociologist at the height of her powers, this work sits at the crossroads of history, psychology, and political philosophy, asking enduring questions about human belonging, autonomy, and the perennial desire to remake society from the ground up. What can these extraordinary social experiments teach us about the very nature of community itself?
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when individuals abandon the boundaries of private life to build something radically shared? Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life is a landmark sociological study that chronicles the history, structure, and inner workings of communal living in America, from the utopian experiments of the nineteenth century to the countercultural communes of the 1960s and 70s. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, drawing on her research at Brandeis University, presents a rigorous yet accessible examination of how intentional communities are formed, sustained, and — just as often — dissolved, mapping the social and psychological forces that bind people together in pursuit of a shared ideal. Kanter argues with scholarly precision that commitment, cohesion, and social control are the invisible architecture of any successful commune, and her analytical framework remains as relevant to organisational theory as it does to alternative social movements. Written with the clarity and authority of a sociologist at the height of her powers, this work sits at the crossroads of history, psychology, and political philosophy, asking enduring questions about human belonging, autonomy, and the perennial desire to remake society from the ground up. What can these extraordinary social experiments teach us about the very nature of community itself?