In Search For Community: Encounter Groups And Social Change
- ISBN-10
- 0429727305
- ISBN-13
- 9780429727306
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-03-08
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Kurt W. Back
Description
This book consists of papers presented at two symposia at AAAS Annual meetings. It enables us to evaluate the new groups and techniques in comparison with other phenomena in the society and with rituals in other societies and times, clearly placing them in the history of ideas.
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- 1978
- 175 pages
- Paperback
- Avalon Publishing
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