Frontiers in Group Dynamics : Concept, Method and Reality in Social Science / Kurt Lewin

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Lewin, Kurt

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Human Relations 1947ISBN:

0018-7267
1741-282X

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Human Relations, 1(1), 5-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/001872674700100103 (Original work published 1947)

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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