The Decline of Community in Zinacantan Elliot T. Berkman "Beyond Prisons" opens a long-needed

"Beyond Prisons" opens a long-needed national dialogue on our responsibilities as citizens and as a nation to provide remediation rather than mere retributive incarceration

the young nation is in serious danger of falling apart

with each disclosing its own facet of the will that frees citizens to grasp their special place in society

and technological-of social change actors from a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the interrelationship of agitation and control and the spectrum of movement activities from the reformist to the revolutionary

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The Decline of Community in Zinacantan Elliot T. Berkman "Beyond Prisons" opens a long-neededThis ambitious work shows how national prosperity and government expansion in Mexico in the 1970's transformed a relatively closed peasant community into a more outwardly connected, socially differentiated society marked by dissension and conflict. 'This fascinating study is a fine example of the benefits of long term research. Cancian has witnessed something near to a transformation of the community whose ethnography he first wrote some 25 years ago.