Author: Hall, John R.
Title: The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1978). orig.boards. 22x14cm, x, 269 pp, Series: International Library of Sociology.. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: A Socio-historical Model of Countercultures; The Comparative Analysis of Communal Groups; Beginners: People; The Group Myth;Initial Collective Life; Early Failure; Time & Communal Life: Time in the Established Order; On the Phenomenology of Time; Time Orientations in Communal Groups; The Diachronic Worldly Utopia; Synchronic Time in Communal Groups; Apocalyptic Time in Communal Groups; The End of History & Utopian Times; The Social Enactment of Communal Life: Attention, Meaning & the Enactment of Communal Life; The Natural Communal World; Produced Communal Worlds; Transcendental Engagement in the Phenomenal World; Needs, Want Satisfaction & Work: Old & New Bases of Want Satisfaction; Time, Social Enactment & Want Satisfaction; Strategies of Resource Acquisition; Labor Substitution & Production of Goods; Organization of Work; Work Discipline & Legitimation; Efficiency & Effectiveness; Government: Sources of Governing Formations; The Political Process; Communal Governments & Crises of Legitimacy; Conclusion: Domination & Meaning in the Established Order; Communal Groups: Emergences & Ideal Types; Communal Groups & Utopian Diffusion; Some Speculations on the Contemporary Situation.

Keywords: Phenomenological Sociology, Utopia, Utopian, Communal Groups, Counterculture, Collectives, United States, ,