Umfang:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
ISBN:
9780765611048
Inhalt:
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.
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""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""
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""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""
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""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""
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""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""
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""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""
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""39. Our Hard Problems Need Soft Solutions: This Is the Century of Soft Things""
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781315698380
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ISBN 9780765611048
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Print version Viable Utopian Ideas : Shaping a Better World
Sprache:
Englisch
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Electronic books
