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Halcyon Days

The Sociology of Communes

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Society Today 2
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Abstract

As many students know, sixties nostalgia flourishes among middle-aged sociologists. Before you know it, the standard lesson on the sociology of youth culture becomes a session of reminiscence of happy days of student protest, of hippies and flower-power.

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  • Abrams, P. and McCulloch, A. (1976) Communes, Sociology and Society (CUP).

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  • Oved, Y. (1988) Two Hundred Years of American Communes (Transaction Books).

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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill

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McNeill, P. (1991). Halcyon Days. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_35

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