Living Walden Two: B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities

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In Walden Two behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner describes one of the most controversial fictional utopias of the twentieth century. During the 1960s and 70s, this novel went on to inspire approximately three dozen actual communities which are examined in Hilke Kuhlmann's Living Walden Two.
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Overview

In Walden Two behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner describes one of the most controversial fictional utopias of the twentieth century. During the 1960s and 70s, this novel went on to inspire approximately three dozen actual communities which are examined in Hilke Kuhlmann's Living Walden Two.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780252029622
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date: 5/4/2005
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Walden two : a behaviorist utopia 3
2 Behavioral psychology and the design of society 22
3 Skinner's utopian vision and the issue of control 31
4 The road not taken : Skinner, experimental communalism, and token economies 43
5 Sunflower house 51
6 Lake village 55
7 Walden three 69
8 The early days of Twin Oaks community 81
9 The planner-manager system 92
10 The communal child-care program 102
11 The labor-credit system 106
12 The appeal of the labor-credit system for the communities movement; or, what communards meant when they said Walden two 111
13 Why people leave 122
14 Mexican contexts 135
15 Education 144
16 The economic structure 149
17 Leadership and decision making 150
18 Behaviorism as religion 158
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