The survival of a counterculture: Ideological work and everyday life among rural communards

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction to the Transaction Edition A Note to Sociologists and Other Readers Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction The Research: Reluctant Beginnings What This Book Is About 2. The Ranch The Setting and the People Access: The Ranch and I 3. Commune Children: Equalitarianism an dthe Decline of Age-Grading Age-Grading Communa lChildren: Mothering and Fathering Children's Rights Ideology and Circumstance Adult sand the Self-Serving Character of Ideas About Children The Problem of Schooling 4. American Pastorialism and the Commune Movement The Pastoral Myth and the Myth of Suburbia Communa lIdeals and the Pastoral Myth Remedial Ideological Work Ideological Work and Downward Social Mobilit y 5. Intimacy: Coupling, Uncoupling, Recoupling Intimate Relations at The Ranch Couplin gand Solidarity Couplin gand Uncoupling at The Ranch Suffering and Social Change: Micro and Macro "Feeling Work" as Ideological Work: Burning Out Jealousy Feminism A Digression on Gender Culture Group Structure and Expressive Candor 6. Ideological Conflict and the Microsociology of Knowledge "Cynicism" and the Sociology of Knowledge Intellectuals: "False Consciousness" and the Sociology of Knowledge Ideological Work and False Consciousness Interests, Legitimacy and the Self-Serving Character of Ideas Meanwhile, Back at The Ranch... 7. Reproduction and Change in Culture and Sensibility The Radical Tradition Political and Cultural Radicalism Mind-Blowing: The Desocialization of Sensibility Teaching, Training, Circumstance, and Sensibility Reflexivity and "Labeling" Theory Appendix: Ethnographic Methods Psychiatry and Ethnography Ethnographic Problems and Methodological Remedies as Ideological Work Unsolved Problems Reflexivity in Ethnography Bibliography Index