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- Title
COMMITMENT AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF COMMITMENT MECHANISMS IN UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES.
- Authors
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
- Abstract
This paper defines commitment and proposes three types, continuance, cohesion, and control commitment, which bind personality systems to areas of social systems, linking cognitive, cathectic, and evaluative orientations to roles, relationships, and norms, respectively. Two processes underlie the development of each of the three types of commitment: sacrifice and investment support continuance; renunciation and communion support cohesion; and mortification and surrender support control. On the basis of these processes, a large number of commitment mechanisms, or commitment-producing organizational strategies, are set forth. Use of these strategies generally distinguishes success/sd (enduring) and unsuccessful (short-lived) nineteenth century American utopian communities.
- Subjects
SOCIAL institutions; SOCIAL role; INTERPERSONAL relations; MORTIFICATION; SOCIAL cohesion; SOCIAL structure
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1968, Vol 33, Issue 4, p499
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2092438