: Concept, Method and Reality in Social Science Lewin, Kurt creator text Human Relations 1947 monographic eng Eng lis h

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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. / Kurt Lewin Group dynamics Field theory Social psychology Force-field analysis Organisational change Group behaviour Action research Social systems Change processes Unfreezing and refreezing 0018-7267 1741-282X https://journals-sagepub-com.hub.tbs-education.fr/doi/abs/10.1177/001872674700100103 https://journals-sagepub-com.hub.tbs-education.fr/doi/abs/10.1177/001872674700100103 250910 20251125113944.0 English