The Attainment of Solidarity in Intentional Communities

Michael Hechter
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Michael Hechter: University of Arizona

Rationality and Society, 1990, vol. 2, issue 2, 142-155

Abstract: Sociologists have tended to assume that although rational-choice theory may be appropriate for the analysis of Gesellschaften, it is inadequate for the analysis of Gemeinschaften. Taking this assumption as its point of departure, this article shows that a theory of group solidarity built on rational-choice premises provides a superior account of the differential success of nineteenth-century American intentional communities (which are taken to be exemplary Gemeinschaften ) than does the conventional sociological account.

Date: 1990
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