04824oam 2200697I 450 991046088550332120200520144314.01-315-69838-21-317-45268-210.4324/9781315698380 (CKB)3710000000431030(EBL)3569582(SSID)ssj0001540365(PQKBManifestationID)11900127(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001540365(PQKBWorkID)11536862(PQKB)10146957(MiAaPQ)EBC3569582(Au-PeEL)EBL3569582(CaPaEBR)ebr11066458(CaONFJC)MIL798258(OCoLC)929510002(OCoLC)911032806(EXLCZ)99371000000043103020180706e20152003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrViable utopian ideas shaping a better world /edited by Arthur B. ShostakLondon ;New York :Routledge,2015.1 online resource (312 p.)First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.0-7656-1105-8 0-7656-1104-X Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Challenges-Personal in Nature""; ""1. Private Dreams and Collective Ideals""; ""2. Why Altruism Is Considered Deviant Behavior: Obstacles on the Path to a Viable Utopia""; ""II. Challenges-Conceptual in Nature""; ""3. Utopia Revisited: New Thinking on Social Betterment""; ""4. Utopia-An Obsolete Concept""; ""5. Utopianism Comes of Age""; ""6. Utopia and the Attempted Flow of Useful Ideas: Why Being Able to Define and Measure a Clear Vision Matters""""III. Methods: Even Better Tools""""7. Modest Steps toward an Ideal World: Sociological Practice and Utopia""; ""8. Utopian Poetry: A Medium for the Message""; ""9. Building Common Ground: Rethinking Rules of Engagement""; ""10. The Utopian University of the People: A Story That Is Not Too Good to Be True""; ""IV. Methods: Information Technology""; ""11. The Human Utopia and the Web""; ""12. Toward a New Democracy""; ""13. Internet Dreaming: Investigating Online Community at the Math Forum""; ""14. Welcome to ""the Collective"": New Meaning to a Meeting of Minds""; ""V. Looking Inward""""15. Understanding Opposing Viewpoints: Placing Yourself in the Shoes of the Other""""16. The Conscious Use of the ""Mirror Effect"": Co-Creating a Utopian World""; ""17. Surprised on the Run!""; ""VI. Looking Homeward""; ""18. Utopias and City Planning: Finding Strength in One Another""; ""19. Distributed Floating Cities: A Laboratory for Exploring Social Utopias""; ""20. I Am a Utopian: Creating the ""Resort Circle""""; ""21. Personal Utopia: Technology's Effect on the Meaning of Home""; ""VII. Schooling Possibilities""; ""22. A Future Vision for Public Education""""23. Blue Sky for Black America: Utopia and African America's Future""""24. Inventing Utopian Delinquency Reforms: Being There in Ways That Work""; ""VIII. High-Schoolers on Utopia""; ""25. Posterity in Their Hands: High School Students and Their Hopes for Utopia""; ""26. Conception for Perfection: A Practical Utopia""; ""27. Settling the High Frontier: Castles in the Sky""; ""IX. Choices: Very Personal""; ""28. ""How Do You Want Your Abortion?""""; ""29. Read 'Em and Weep, Boys""; ""30. Choosing Your Future""; ""X. Choices: Societal""""31. The Journey Counts Most: Building Deserving Organizations""""32. The Society Unions Can Build: Toward a Utopian Social Democratic America""; ""33. Utopian Conceptions of Society's Third Sector""; ""XI. Nation-Building Aids""; ""34. Utopianism and Grassroots Alternatives""; ""35. The Ulithi Project: Can a Traditional Non-Western Culture Survive?""; ""36. Utopias Discovered: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conffict""; ""37. The World Senate and Academy""; ""XII. The Big Picture: Global Transformation""; ""38. The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics""""39. Our Hard Problems Need Soft Solutions: This Is the Century of Soft Things""UtopiasIdealismSocial changeSocial predictionElectronic books.Utopias.Idealism.Social change.Social prediction.335/.02Shostak Arthur B930419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460885503321Viable utopian ideas2092838UNINA