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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462347503321

Autore

Kuhlmann Hilke <1969->

Titolo

Living Walden Two [[electronic resource] ] : B.F. Skinner's behaviorist utopia and experimental communities / / Hilke Kuhlmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-58353-4

9786613895981

0-252-09165-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

307.77/0973

Soggetti

Utopias - United States

Behavior modification - United States

Communal living - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Walden Two : a behaviorist utopia -- Behavioral psychology and the design of society -- Skinner's utopian vision and the issue of control -- The road not taken : Skinner, experimental communalism, and token economies -- Sunflower House -- Lake Village -- Walden Three -- The early days of Twin Oaks Community -- The planner manager system -- The communal child care program -- The labor credit system -- The appeal of the labor credit system for the communities -- Movement, or, What communards meant when they said Walden Two -- Why people leave -- Mexican contexts -- Education -- The economic structure -- Leadership and decision-making -- Behaviorism as religion.