Social Groups as Products of Participating Individuals

Bibliographic Data

ID2200557
AuthorsFlorian Znaniecki (corresponding author)
Year1939
Volume44
Issue6
Pages799-811
Publication date1939-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/218171
OpenAlexW1985555951
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Human Individuals and social groups do not exist as natural objects; they are data of evaluative and active human experiences which cannot be theoretically standardized as either objective or subjective, but can be reconstructed and objectively investigated as facts by standardized methods of humanistic science.Thus viewed, the group is not an association of concrete individuals by a synthesis of members' roles. Members' roles and groups are cultural products, systems of values, and activities regulated in accordance with definite historical patterns. But there are various other factors which modify or interfere with the patterned relationships between groups and their members, and these raise many difficult problems of social causality

Association (psychology) · Causality (physics) · Developmental psychology · Group (periodic table) · Humanism · Natural (archaeology) · Political science · Psychotherapist · Social group · History · Psychology · Social and Cultural Studies · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity