IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ratsoc/v2y1990i2p142-155.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Attainment of Solidarity in Intentional Communities

Author

Listed:
  • MICHAEL HECHTER

    (University of Arizona)

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Michael Hechter, 1990. "The Attainment of Solidarity in Intentional Communities," Rationality and Society, , vol. 2(2), pages 142-155, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ratsoc:v:2:y:1990:i:2:p:142-155
    DOI: 10.1177/1043463190002002004
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043463190002002004
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/1043463190002002004?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert, 2004. "Persistent parochialism: trust and exclusion in ethnic networks," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 55(1), pages 1-23, September.
    2. Chen Qu & Elise Météreau & Luigi Butera & Marie Claire Villeval & Jean-Claude Dreher & Matthew Rushworth, 2019. "Neurocomputational mechanisms at play when weighing concerns for extrinsic rewards, moral values, and social image," Post-Print halshs-02193425, HAL.
    3. Dan Ariely & Nina Mazar, 2006. "Dishonesty in everyday life and its policy implications," Working Papers 06-3, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    4. Naidu, Sirisha, 2005. "Heterogeneity and Common Pool Resources: Collective Management of Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India," Working Paper Series 14533, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Resource Economics.
    5. Nicole Celestine & Catherine Leighton & Chris Perryer, 2020. "A Multifocal and Integrative View of the Influencers of Ethical Attitudes Using Qualitative Configurational Analysis," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 162(1), pages 103-122, February.
    6. Chen, Donghua & Chen, Yinying & Li, Oliver Zhen & Ni, Chenkai, 2018. "Foreign residency rights and corporate fraud," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 142-163.
    7. Francesca Gino & Lamar Pierce, 2010. "Robin Hood Under the Hood: Wealth-Based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 21(6), pages 1176-1194, December.
    8. Anderson, C. Leigh & Swimmer, Eugene, 1997. "Some empirical evidence on property rights of first peoples," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 33(1), pages 1-22, May.
    9. Zafirovski, Milan, 1998. "Socio-economics and rational choice theory: Specification of their relations," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 165-205.
    10. Molinas, JoseR., 1998. "The impact of inequality, gender, external assistance and social capital on local-level cooperation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 26(3), pages 413-431, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ratsoc:v:2:y:1990:i:2:p:142-155. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.