Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: growing up on kibbutz as case study

[David Mandel (dlmandel]

Bettleheim's book was published at least 30 years ago and was widely
criticized at the time from various perspectives, many of them charging him
with gross overgeneralization. In any event, things have changed a lot on
kibbutzim. Here, found in the coho-l archivers, is a link to a little
political/economic/historical analysis I contributed to this list-serve
several years ago.
David Mandel

http://csf.colorado.edu/cohousing/sep97/0104.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Tilstra" <tilstra [at] smartchat.net.au>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:15 AM
Subject: [C-L]_Re: growing up on kibbutz as case study


> Bruno Bettleheim  has studied "Kibbutzniks" (those who live on Kibbutzim)
> and the first generation are now in their 30s and 40s. He found that they
> tended to be less anxious, nervous and aggressive than other Israelis, and
> that the mothers in Kibbutzim were gentler with their children - there was
> no evidence of child battering. However, Kibbutzniks were less ambitious
and
> striving than other Israelis.
> (http://www.esher.ac.uk/scextranet/sociology/introduction.htm )
>
> Here's a link to a pdf file on the topic...
> http://www.history.ucla.edu/undergrad/pat/quaestio/PDF/sternbach.pdf
>
> NB I'm not arguing that cohousing should position itself more in the
kibbutz
> direction; however, it does suggest that a kibbutz achieves qualities that
> can be described as more androgynous in culture. From the cohousing
reading
> I've studied so far, there is a similarity in the reporting of children's
> experiences and it's positive.
>
> :-) Hans
>
>
>
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