1st Edition

The Survival of a Counterculture Ideological Work and Everyday Life among Rural Communards

By Bennett Berger Copyright 2004
290 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

The Survival of a Counterculture is a lively, engaging look into the ways communards, or people who live in communes, maintain, modify, use, and otherwise live with their convictions while they attempt to get through the problems of everyday life. Communal families shape their norms to the circumstances they live with, just as on a larger scale nations and major institutions also shape their... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: The Ranch; 3: Commune Children: Equalitarianism and the Decline of Age-Grading; 4: American Pastoralism and the Commune Movement; 5: Intimacy: Coupling, Uncoupling, Recoupling; 6: Ideological Conflict and the Microsociology of Knowledge; 7: Reproduction and Change in Culture and Sensibility

Biography

John Mill