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Los Horcones is an intentional community located about 40 miles from Hermosillo, Mexico. It has described itself "as the only true ''Walden Two'' community in existence".〔Lamal, Peter (2009). ("From Rats and Pigeons to Cultural Practices: A Review of ''Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s to 1970s"'' ). ''Behavior and Social Issues, 18,'' pp. 175–177.〕 The members of Los Horcones use techniques based on behavioral science to shape their own and each other's behaviors. They use those behavior-shaping techniques in politically coordinated ways and they do so in order to ''continuously improve'' themselves and their culture. They are striving to build a culture "based on cooperation, sharing, non-violence, equality and ecological sustainability." ''Experimentalism'' and ''continuous improvement'' are two of the most important doctrines of a Walden Two community. Burrhus Frederic Skinner, author of the novel ''Walden Two'', expressed this in the following way. He wrote: The members of Los Horcones regard their community as a cultural laboratory and they regard themselves as cultural engineers.〔Cultural engineering means the politically coordinated application of behavioral science to the establishment of cultural behaviors and to the manufacture of cultural materials.〕 They will readily adopt new cultural behaviors〔Cultural behavior means the learned behaviors that are shared by the members of a society.〕 when experimental evidence indicates that doing so will improve their lives. As a result of their cultural engineering efforts, they are unlikely to suffer from cultural lag. Los Horcones is listed in the ''Communities Directory'' of the Fellowship for Intentional Community.〔(''Communities Directory'' ). Fellowship for Intentional Community, February 25, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2012. "We are a Walden Two community in the sense we apply behavioral principles in our daily life to learn communitarian behaviors. Being a Walden Two does not mean we are inspired by or follow the novel ''Walden Two'' (Skinner) but rather that we apply the science of behavior on which ''Walden Two'' was based".〕 ==An Experimental Community== Los Horcones can also be regarded as an "experimental community".〔Skinner, B. F. (1985). ("News From Nowhere, 1984" ). ''The Behavior Analyst,'' 8(1), pp. 5–14. "My name is Burris. I live in an ''experimental community'' called Walden Two". p. 5.〕〔Skinner, B. F. (1968). "The Design of Experimental Communities". ''International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences'' (Volume 16). New York: Macmillan, 1968, pp. 271–275.〕 When the members of Los Horcones encounter problems they design and conduct experiments to test possible solutions to their problems. Depending on the result of an experiment, they may collectively resolve to make an experimental behavior into a community-approved component of their behavioral culture. In this way, the Los Horconans exercise control over the evolution of their culture. An experimental community does not claim to be perfect and it is a misnomer to describe a Walden Two community as a utopia (a perfect society). An experimental community thrives on its problems because its problems are seen as opportunities for experimentation. An experimental community can be thought of as a ''eutopia'' (a good place) in which there is always room for experimentation and improvement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Horcones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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