After having read my background source on the Icarian community I found the idea of the Icarian culture quite interesting. The background source had mentioned festivals and music which interested me quite a bit as I was curious to whether these cultura…
How did this research help me come to my final research question? Reflect on the ways the workshop shaped your topic and refined your research question?
My curiosity about the “Americanization of Fourierism” actually manifested while I read…
After reading Women in Utopia: The Ideology of Gender in American Owenite Communities, by Carol A. Kolmerten, I have decided to refine my research question by not only asking if women were neglected in the Owenite community, but also asking why they we…
It would be perfectly logical to assume that one should start with a clear question and then proceed by researching that question. However, going through the process of simply starting with a topic and then researching without a clear question already …
“How did this research help me come to my final research question?” Reflect on the ways the workshop shaped your topic and refined your research question.
Having a good source is one thing, but knowing how to use it is different, and knowing how to…
What do I find interesting or curious about this group of people? What more do I need to know to situate this community in the problem or concept of utopia?
The Owen and his new world.
From the reading about Robert Owen and his new Harmony, It is reall…
The Oneida community is fascinating! From reading only the Lawrence Foster source so far I have been able to extrapolate a lot of key information. I have begun to understand the multi-faced philosophy of Noyes. He saw our modern form of christianity en…
I can’t say enough how important it is to ask questions. As much as we see learning as something “to fill our brains” something different happens when we turn the passive act of learning into an active one. Asking a question forces you to engage in learning in a different way. It turns on the curiosity engine and moves you from… Read more »
I find the Fourierest Phalanxes very interesting because the plan was so well detailed even up to the exact amount of members that should be admitted. Fourier’s original ideas were well thought out and focused a lot on a special “divine soc…
When reading about the Oneida community, I found the most interesting part to be the leader himself, John Humphrey Noyes. I find his thought process of attaining “perfectionism” in complete avoidance of sin interesting. Though, I did find h…