The Human Group

Bibliographic Data

ID19895751
AuthorsGeorge Caspar Homans, A Paul Hare, Richard Brian Polley
Year2017
Publication date2017-09-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byThe Human Group, Ward H Goodenough, 1951
VenueHuman Group (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315132518
OpenAlexW4237096902
Open LibraryOL36733709M
ISBN9781315132518
LanguageEN
Citations received53

George C. Homans's classic volume The Human Group was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society. It introduced a method of analysis and a set of influential theories that cut across areas of specialization on the personality, community, and industry.The study of even the smallest groups is extremely complex, with the simplest associations involving an abundance of actions, relationships, emotions, motives, ideas, and beliefs. Homans concentrates on certain activities and processes he observes in five carefully selected and differentiated case studies and from them draws common patterns and ideas that serve as the bases of testable propositions.He divides his cases into static and dynamic groups. In all five cases, Homans selects comparable phenomena for analysis with a contextually different emphasis and elaboration each time. His results demonstrate that, different as these groups are, their behavior reveals fundamental similarities and social uniformities. A ground-breaking and authoritative work when it was first published in 1950, The Human Group continues to Inform and invigorate the study of small groups in sociology, psychology, management, and organizations

Group (periodic table) · Physics · Management Theory and Practice · Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Team Dynamics and Performance · Small groups · Social psychology

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