Group Psychology

Abraham Zaleznik

Chapter Chapter 8 in Executive’s Guide to Understanding People, 2009, pp 111-131 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the oldest debates in the social sciences concerns the relative positions of the individual, the group, and society in the explanation of behavior. Sociologists, whose work focuses on groups and society, have a powerful commitment to explain behavior that can be described apart from the people performing the action. Take, for example, patterns of interaction in a group. These can be described quantitatively without reference to specific individuals. Sociologists claim that there are facts about groups and other collective structures that follow laws of behavior distinct from those laws that apply to individuals and their personalities. Clear examples of such social facts are population movements; crime rates; marriage, divorce, and other family statistics; occupational mobility, and other behavioral trends within a society.

Keywords: Social Worker; Group Structure; Chief Executive Officer; Double Bind; Group Psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230103153_8

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