Field Theory and Experiment in Social Psychology
Autocratic and Democratic Group Atmospheres
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2200593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Lippitt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-49 |
| Publication date | 1939-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/218207 |
| OpenAlex | W1978731211 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 2 |
The author illustrates briefly the type of research projects which may be expected to emerge from the field-theoretical formulation of sociological and sociopsychological problems. A "total behavior" technique of observation of group and individual child behavior is briefly described which attempts to record all maningful social behavior in its proper relationship to other facts of the "total field" of coexisting phenomena influencing behavior. By the experimental manipulation of the social atmospheres of two children's clubs, using the variable of authoritarian versus democratic leadership methods, it is indicated that quantitative and qualitative data were secured which seem to clarity in a preliminary, empirical fashion, such dynamic concepts as group locomotion, group goal, degree of group unity, group stratification, group and member space of free movement, social powerfield, degree of belongingness, and membership status. A preliminary approach to the problem of analyzing tha same material (social-behavior data) from the sociological and psychological points of view, using the same realm of discourse is attempted
Authoritarianism · Belongingness · CLARITY · Collective behavior · Conformity · Democracy · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Group (periodic table) · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social group · Social science · Sociology · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Social Psychology · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
Job Satisfaction and Interpersonal Desirability Values
The social status of aggressive students across contexts
Summary of Literature on Social Adjustment
Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities
Not Just Your Average Beauty
Effects of Classroom Embeddedness and Density on the Social Status of Aggressive and Victimized Children
An Instrument for Studying Viscidity within Small Groups
Psychology as a Social Science
Recent Discussion Regarding Social Psychology
Roundabout methods
Social structure and interaction processes on a psychiatric ward
Inequality Matters
Part I
Group Therapy, Group Work, and Adult Education
Early Integration in Groups
The Dimensions of Syntality in Small Groups
A Frame of Reference for the Measurement of Institutional Leadership Concepts and the Analysis of System States
New Concepts for Measuring Leadership, in Terms of Group Syntality
Group dynamics—neither Hope nor Hoax
A Critique of "Democratic Administration" and Its Supporting Ideation
The Study of Political Leadership
A 'Scientific Revolution
In the Political Laboratory
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
| Citation span | 1942 - 2026 (85) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |