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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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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; III. Methods: Even Better Tools |
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7. Modest Steps toward an Ideal World: Sociological Practice and Utopia8. 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 Other16. 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 Future24. 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 |
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32. The Society Unions Can Build: Toward a Utopian Social Democratic America33. 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 |
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40. Planetary Social and Spiritual Transformation: P.R. Sarkar's Eutopian Vision of the Future |
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Utopias.
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Idealism.
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Social change.
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Social prediction.
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utopian literature.
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utopias.
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idealism (philosophical movement)
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Idealism
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Social change
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Social prediction
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Utopias
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315698380 |
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1315698382 |
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