Abstract

Intentional Communities (ICs) are groups of people that form for a specific agreed-upon purpose and live in close proximity to achieve their desired end. The prevailing scholarship in the study of these communities is that communal processes of commitment, as well as ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, play a strong role in determining a community's success when defined as how long-lived a community was. However, most of these conclusions are based in historical research on communities that no longer exist. In this article, we use survey data collected from present-day ICs to find that those assumptions do not necessarily hold true, and we propose a definition of success that incorporates how well communities report satisfaction fulfilling their intentions. By testing a sample of living ICs, we find that the community decision-making structure is more important than any other factor in determining whether communities reports progress toward this metric of success.

摘要

有意社区（IC）是为了达成特定商定目的而组成的一群人，居住在很近的地方以实现其期望的目标。研究这些社区时普遍采用的奖学金是，社区的承诺过程以及种族和语言的同质性在决定社区的成功时起着很重要的作用，而社区的成功定义为社区的寿命。但是，大多数这些结论都是基于对不再存在的社区的历史研究得出的。在本文中，我们使用从当今的IC收集的调查数据来发现这些假设不一定成立，并提出了成功的定义，其中纳入了社区报告满足其意图的满意程度。通过测试有源集成电路的样本，