Inventory of the Bennet M. Berger Papers

Series 1 Bennett M. Berger 1950-2005

Physical Description: 3 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Arranged in four subseries: Correspondence, Manuscripts, Notes, and Articles.

Series 1.1 Correspondence 1969-2005

Physical Description: 0.8 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence between Bennett Berger and book publishing companies, the National Institute of Mental Health, university presses, community colleges, and colleagues. Arranged chronologically.

Box/Folder 6:1

Quadrangle Books, Inc. 1969-1971

Box/Folder 6:2

NIMH Documents 1970

Box/Folder 6:3-5

Correspondence re: communes 1970-1977

Box/Folder 6:6

Correspondence 1971 1974 1977

Box/Folder 6:7

University of California Press and Correspondence 1971-1972 1974 1976-1977

Box/Folder 6:8

Correspondence: McClung, William J. 1972

Box/Folder 6:9

Correspondence: UCLA 1973

Box/Folder 6:10

Institute of Human Values Booklet and Letter 1975

Box/Folder 6:11

Correspondence: Coast Community College 1975

Box/Folder 6:12-13

Bennett Berger's 50th Birthday Celebration 1976

Box/Folder 7:1

Commune Work of Students, Assistants, etc. 1974-1975

Box/Folder 7:2

Commune Notes, Papers, Correspondence 1974-1975

Box/Folder 7:3

Pacific Consultants Papers and Letters 1976

Box/Folder 7:4

Correspondence, Susan Rags 1977

Box/Folder 7:5

American Pastoralism Manuscript; Critiques; Correspondence 1977

Box/Folder 7:6

Ruth, David J., Correspondence and Manuscript 1977-1978

Box/Folder 7:7

Untitled Manuscript and Correspondence 1979

Box/Folder 7:8

Bruce Hackett Retirement and Misc. 1987-2003

Box/Folder 7:9

Correspondence 1989-2000

Box/Folder 7:10

Adolescent Psychology Conference 1991-1992

Box/Folder 7:11

Correspondence 1995-1999

Box/Folder 7:12

Fetzer Conference 1995-1996

Box/Folder 7:13

UC Press Correspondence 1996-2000

Box/Folder 7:14

"Fragments: A Series" and Correspondence 1999-2002

Box/Folder 7:15

Correspondence: Horowitz, Irving Louis 2002-2004

Box/Folder 7:16

Correspondence: West Virginia University; Manuscript 2004-2005

Series 1.2 Manuscripts 1950-2004

Physical Description: 1.2 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Includes Berger's manuscripts of books drafts, conference papers, and essays. Arranged chronologically.

Box/Folder 1:1-2

Proletarian Suburb: A Study of a Working Class Version of Suburbia 1950 1959

Box/Folder 1:3

Remarks at Pacific Sociology Meetings 1972

Box/Folder 1:4-5

Age Grading in Rural Communes: American Pastoralism 1974

Box/Folder 1:6

Manuscript for USA and T.V. 1976

Box/Folder 1:7

Definitions and Validity Issues in Field Research on Fad Drugs 1977

Box/Folder 1:8-9

Essay (Berger, Bennett) 1980 1987-1988 1993

Box/Folder 1:10-11

Recent Manuscripts 1993

Box/Folder 2:1

Attention Deficit Disorder 1998-2003

Box/Folder 2:2

Generation Talk 1999

Box/Folder 2:3

ICL Talk 2004

Box/Folder 2:4

Manuscript: Ideological Work in Counterculture Communes (incomplete) undated

Box/Folder 2:5

Child Rearing Practices of the Communal Family (Draft) undated

Box/Folder 2:6-9

Manuscript Draft undated

Box/Folder 2:10-11

Book Manuscript Fragments undated

Box/Folder 2:12

Unidentified Manuscript (incomplete) undated

Box/Folder 2:13

[Chapters] From Unknown Manuscript undated

Box/Folder 2:14-15

Untitled Manuscript undated

Box/Folder 2:16

"Models" undated

Box/Folder 2:17

American Pastoralism, Suburbia, and the Commune Movement (incomplete) undated

Box/Folder 3:1

"Introduction to the Transaction Edition" undated

Box/Folder 3:2

Progress Report to NIMH undated

Box/Folder 3:3

The Journal of a Counter Culture undated

Box/Folder 3:4

Pastoralism Manuscript Drafts undated

Box/Folder 3:5

Decline of Age Grading in Rural Communes undated

Box/Folder 3:6

Miscellaneous Manuscripts 1998-2004

Box/Folder 3:7

Guggenheim Draft Application 1977

Box/Folder 3:8

Communes in the Counter-Culture - Book Review by Berger undated

Box/Folder 3:9

"Country Life" undated

Box/Folder 3:10

"Introduction" undated

Box/Folder 3:11

"The More Things Change" undated

Box/Folder 3:12

First Drafts of Chapters undated

Box/Folder 13:1

Book Layout undated

Series 1.3 Notes 1954-2004

Physical Description: 0.6 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Includes index cards, outlines, questionnaires, bibliographies, interview transcripts, and photocopies of Berger's journal. Also includes a folder containing information about friend's memorial. Arranged chronologically.

Box/Folder 4:17

Index Cards: Notes 1954-1971

Box/Folder 4:18

"Abstracts of Papers on Youth..." 1960

Box/Folder 4:19

Commune Grant: Official Documents 1967-1971

Box/Folder 4:20

Outlines; Organizations 1970

Box/Folder 5:1

Field Notes; Commune Research 1976

Box/Folder 5:2

Table Mountain Papers; Notes 1970

Box/Folder 5:3

Field Notes: TMR 1971

Box/Folder 5:4

Questionnaires 1972

Box/Folder 5:5

Commune Study Notes 1970-1976

Box/Folder 5:6

Application for Senior Fellowship 1973

Box/Folder 5:7

Commune Bibliography 1973

Box/Folder 5:8

Notes 1994

Box/Folder 5:9

Curriculum Vita 1998

Box/Folder 5:10

Michael Rizzo Memoriam 1999

Box/Folder 5:11

Pacific Sociological Association 2000

Box/Folder 5:12

Notepads undated

Box/Folder 5:13

Bibliography undated

Box/Folder 5:14

Miscellaneous Papers and Notes undated

Box/Folder 5:15

Notes re: Communes undated

Box/Folder 5:16

Notes on Commune Book undated

Box/Folder 5:17

Children's Rights Notes undated

Box/Folder 5:18

Unknown References undated

Box/Folder 5:19

French Lessons undated

Box/Folder 5:20

Interview Transcript undated

Box/Folder 5:21

[Journal Photocopies] undated

Series 1.4 Articles 1970-2003

Physical Description: 0.4 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Includes various drafts of published articles that Berger wrote over a thirty year period. Arranged chronologically.

Box/Folder 4:1

"The Lands" 1970

Box/Folder 4:2

"Sinatra" 1998

Box/Folder 4:3

"'Patch Adams' and the Movies" 1998

Box/Folder 4:4

"The Evolution of 'Cool'" 1999

Box/Folder 4:5

"Well" 1999

Box/Folder 4:6

"Enron: Conspiracy and Other Clichés" 1995-2002

Box/Folder 4:7

"It's the Categories, Stupid" 2000

Box/Folder 4:8

Counter Culture Definition for Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2000

Box/Folder 4:9-10

"Who Is a Jew" 2001

Box/Folder 4:11

"Go Figure" 2003

Box/Folder 4:12-13

"Geezer Talk: An Emeritus Professor Looks Back" 2004

Box/Folder 4:14

"Counterculture" undated

Box/Folder 4:15

"I Hear Ringing and There's No-One There" undated

Box/Folder 4:16

"The Aging of Popular Music" undated

Series 2 Other Authors 1963-2003

Physical Description: 2.3 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Arranged into three subseries: Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Notes and Publications.

Box/Folder 12:9

Series 2.1 Correspondence 1976

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence between Dr. Stephen M. Pittel and Joan Dunne Rittenhouse concerning a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Field Report on fad drugs.

Series 2.2 Manuscripts 1963-2003

Physical Description: 1.2 linear feet

Scope and Content Note

Includes manuscripts from other authors: essays, articles, theses, and field report studies. Arranged chronologically.

Box/Folder 7:17

Master's Thesis 1963

Box/Folder 7:18

Mungo, Raymond, "Total Loss Farm" 1970

Box/Folder 7:19

Coran, Sheri, "The Joys of Childhood" 1970

Box/Folder 7:20

Hackett Papers 1970

Box/Folder 8:1

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, "Getting It All Together" 1971

Box/Folder 8:2

Paul Kagan Papers 1971

Box/Folder 8:3-4

Sherri Caran 1970-1971

Box/Folder 8:5

Youth Subculture 1972 1975

Box/Folder 8:6

Other's Manuscript 1973

Box/Folder 8:7

Preliminary Case Report II 1972-1973

Box/Folder 8:8

Annual Report: Structure, Function, and Impact of Urban Communes 1972-1973

Box/Folder 8:9

laFargue, Michael, "The Redbird Commune" 1972-1973

Box/Folder 8:10

Kanter, Rosabeth and Bronfman, Joan "The Ravensreet Commune" 1972-1973

Box/Folder 8:11

Lofland, John, "Diversity in Reporting Qualitative Field Research" 1973

Box/Folder 8:12

McDermott, Richard "The Magpie Street Commune" 1973

Box/Folder 8:13

Zablocki, Benjamin, "Communes and the Future of America" 1973

Box/Folder 8:14

Progress Report to NIMH: Rosabeth Moss Kanter 1973

Box/Folder 8:15

Jaffe, Dennis T., "The First Four Long Years of a Family Commune" 1975

Box/Folder 8:16

Field Study Report: PCP as a Fad Drug 1976

Box/Folder 8:17

PCP Report for Pacific Consultants 1976

Box/Folder 8:18

Wallis, Roy, "Sex, Marriage and the Children of God" 1977

Box/Folder 8:19

Hawkins, J. David, Dissertation and Correspondence 1978

Box/Folder 8:20

Gardner, Hugh, "Children of Prosperity" 1977

Box/Folder 9:1

[Vinod's] Contacts 1971

Box/Folder 9:2-3

Yolanda Cohen Project 1989-1993

Box/Folder 9:4

Damiell, Joseph, "This is a Think-Piece About Bennett Berger" 1991

Box/Folder 9:5

Sabbatical Request 2002

Box/Folder 9:6

Caran, Sherri, "Hippies of the Redwood Forest" Outline undated

Box/Folder 9:7-9

[Millar] Manuscript undated

Box/Folder 9:10

Jaffe, Dennis T. undated

Box/Folder 9:11

[...in Rural Hippie Communes] undated

Box/Folder 9:12

Hawkins, David J., "Dynamics of Conformity in Communal Groups undated

Box/Folder 10:1

"Against Essentialism" 1999

Box/Folder 10:2

Others' Work 2001-2002

Box/Folder 10:3

Zablocki, Benjamin, "The Genesis of Normative Systems in Rural Hippie Communities" 1973

Box/Folder 10:4

Untitled Others' Work undated

Box/Folder 10:5

Book Proposal undated

Box/Folder 10:6

Christopherson, "Free Shchool" undated

Box/Folder 10:7

Cononer, "Alternate Institutions and Alternate Society" undated

Box/Folder 10:8

Hall, John R., "The Ways Out..." undated

Box/Folder 10:9

Miller, Henry, "On Drugs, Hippies, and the Radical Left" undated

Box/Folder 10:10

Poney, Walter W., "A Comparative Analysis of 19th and 20th Century Communes" undated

Box/Folder 10:11

Unidentified Author, "The Acquisition of Sexual Identity" undated

Box/Folder 10:12-14

Kagan, Paul, "Search for Community" undated

Series 2.3 Notes and Publications 1999-2002

Physical Description: 1 linear foot

Scope and Content Note

Includes another author's interview transcript as well as newspaper and magazine publications. Arranged chronologically.

Box/Folder 10:15

Interview Transcript undated

Box/Folder 10:16

Articles, Newspaper Clippings 1998-2000 2002

Box/Folder 10:17

Articles, Book Reviews 1992 1997-1999

Box/Folder 10:18

Synanon Foundation Literature 1968

Box/Folder 10:19

"This is the Farm Book" 1974

Box/Folder 10:20

Communal Societies in America 1970-1971

Box/Folder 11:1-2

Newspaper Clipping Photocopies (Sociology Interest) undated

Box/Folder 11:3

Power and Civility: Elias, Norbert 1982

Box/Folder 11:4

Playboy 1976 1981

Box/Folder 11:5

New York Times Book Review: Article by Berger undated

Box/Folder 11:6

Directory of Intentional Communes 1978

Box/Folder 11:7

Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living 1977

Box/Folder 11:8

Film Ad 1978

Box/Folder 12:1

Ogilvy, Jay and Heather, "Communes and the Reconstruction of Reality" undated

Box/Folder 12:2

Article/Newspaper Clippings undated

Box/Folder 12:3

International Society for the Sociology of Knowledge 1978

Box/Folder 12:4

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 1975

Box/Folder 12:5

Publication: Think 1970

Box/Folder 12:6

Jaffe, Dennis J., "The Healer, The Community, or the Bureaucrat" 1974

Box/Folder 12:7

Greene, Felix, "Visit to a Rural Commune" undated

Box/Folder 12:8

Jerome, Judson, "All in Common" undated

Series 3 Audio Visual 1985-2004

Physical Description: 3 folders

Scope and Content Note

Includes two video cassette tapes as well as photographs of Berger and his family.

Box/Folder 12:10

Video: Culture Cross Cultural Communications 2002

Box/Folder 12:11

Video: Culture Identity Behavior 2004

Box/Folder 13:2

Photographs of Berger and His Family 1985-1997

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