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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812948003321

Autore

Kuhlmann Hilke <1969->

Titolo

Living Walden Two : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

307.77/0973

Soggetti

Utopias - United States

Behavior modification - United States

Communal living - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Describes one of the most controversial fictional utopias of the twentieth century. This book explores the dynamics of the communities, with an examination of the two surviving Skinnerian communities: Comunidad Los Horcones in Mexico, and Twin Oaks in Virginia.