@article{MACAROV_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING UTOPIA: THE ISRAELI KIBBUTZ AS A CASE IN POINT}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/constructing-and-deconstructing-utopia-the-israeli}, abstractNote={Whether or not one has ever been to Israel, the Kibbutz is probably familiar as a symbol of a planned utopian community, albeit about which one hears less and less lately, except perhaps for troubled and troubling news. The Kibbutz constitutes one of the most revealing social "labs" in modern times, complete with its Children’s House, egalitarian labor rules, sharing of possessions, common eating norms, and history of providing the State with many of its early greatest figures. All the more valuable, therefore, is the thorough-going, engaging, and highly authoritative examination below of the rise and possible "fall" (or redesign) of this fascinating effort to adopt utopian tenets in a modern (albeit very stressed) context.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={MACAROV, DAVID}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }