Spirit Of Community

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Simon and Schuster, 1994 M05 24 - 323 pages
America needs to move from me to we. In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward - together. The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening of our allegiance to the shared values and institutions that sustain us - from our marriages and families to our schools and our neighborhoods, and extending to our nation itself. In proposing a new balance between our rights as individuals and our social responsibilities, this controversial, groundbreaking book articulates the emerging social attitudes of the nineties.
 

Contents

Introduction A New Moral Social Public
1
Part I
21
The Communitarian Family
54
The Communitarian School
89
Back to We
116
Rebuilding Community Institutions
134
Too Many Rights Too Few Responsibilities
161
Nonlegal Remedies
192
Part III
207
What Is to Be Done?
226
In Conclusion
247
Notes
269
Acknowledgments
313
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Amitai Etzioni a sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting the moral, social, and political foundations of society. He was called the "guru" of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s, and he established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement's ideas.

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