TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewin, Kurt
TI  - Frontiers in Group Dynamics: : Concept, Method and Reality in Social Science
SN  - 0018-7267
PY  - 1947///
PB  - Human Relations
KW  - Group dynamics
KW  - Field theory
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Force-field analysis
KW  - Organisational change
KW  - Group behaviour
KW  - Action research
KW  - Social systems
KW  - Change processes
KW  - Unfreezing and refreezing
N2  - 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
UR  - https://journals-sagepub-com.hub.tbs-education.fr/doi/abs/10.1177/001872674700100103
ER  -