Frontiers in Group Dynamics : Concept, Method and Reality in Social Science
Lewin, Kurt
Frontiers in Group Dynamics : Concept, Method and Reality in Social Science Human Relations, 1(1), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/001872674700100103 (Original work published 1947) / Kurt Lewin - Human Relations 1947 - Human Relations, 1(1), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/001872674700100103 (Original work published 1947)
One of the byproducts of World War II of which society is hardly aware is the new stage of development that the social sciences have reached. This development may, indeed, prove to be as revolutionary as the atom bomb. Applying cultural anthropology to modern rather than “primitive” cultures, experimenting with groups inside and outside the laboratory, and measuring the sociopsychological aspects of large social bodies—together with the combination of economic, cultural, and psychological fact-finding—are all developments that started before the war. However, by providing unprecedented facilities and by demanding realistic and workable solutions to scientific problems, the war greatly accelerated the shift of the social sciences to a new level of development.
0018-7267 1741-282X
Group dynamics Field theory Social psychology Force-field analysis Organisational change Group behaviour Action research Social systems Change processes Unfreezing and refreezing
Frontiers in Group Dynamics : Concept, Method and Reality in Social Science Human Relations, 1(1), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/001872674700100103 (Original work published 1947) / Kurt Lewin - Human Relations 1947 - Human Relations, 1(1), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/001872674700100103 (Original work published 1947)
One of the byproducts of World War II of which society is hardly aware is the new stage of development that the social sciences have reached. This development may, indeed, prove to be as revolutionary as the atom bomb. Applying cultural anthropology to modern rather than “primitive” cultures, experimenting with groups inside and outside the laboratory, and measuring the sociopsychological aspects of large social bodies—together with the combination of economic, cultural, and psychological fact-finding—are all developments that started before the war. However, by providing unprecedented facilities and by demanding realistic and workable solutions to scientific problems, the war greatly accelerated the shift of the social sciences to a new level of development.
0018-7267 1741-282X
Group dynamics Field theory Social psychology Force-field analysis Organisational change Group behaviour Action research Social systems Change processes Unfreezing and refreezing
