1st Edition

The Social Psychology of Groups

By John W. Thibaut Copyright 1959
342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

339 Pages
by Routledge

This landmark theory of interpersonal relations and group functioning argues that the starting point for understanding social behavior is the analysis of dyadic interdependence. Such an analysis portrays the ways in which the separate and joint actions of two persons affect the quality of their lives and the survival of their relationship. The authors focus on patterns of interdependence, and on... Read more
I: Introduction the Study of the History of Ideas; II: The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy; III: The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought; IV: The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography; V: Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza; VI: The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Thought, and Man’s Place and Role in Nature; VII: The Principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism; VIII: The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Biology; IX: The Temporalizing of the Chain of Being; X: Romanticism and The Principle of Plenitude; XI: The Outcome of The History and Its Moral

Biography

John W. Thibaut