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PATTERNS OF ROLE BEHAVIOR IN SMALL SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Abstract
The purpose of the first phase of this research is to explore in a general way the problem of the organization of role behavior in informal groups. It is based upon the assumptions that small group behavior is cultural and symbolic in nature and that it is structured in ways which are not exhausted by the present inventory of structural concepts.Chapter 1 reviews the background of sociological research and theory in which the subsequent empirical investigations are conducted. Chapter 2 proposes the central concept of the whole investigation: Pattern of role behavior. Chapter 2 also reports exploratory efforts to design and test the validity of operations defining this concept. Chapter 3 is a somewhat more formal and experimental attempt to interpret the patterns discovered in Chapter 2 and to test independently a major assumption upon which these patterns rest; namely, that there is structure in the behavior system of the group apart from the allocation of that behavior to particular members.
Subject Area
Social psychology
Recommended Citation
CLOYD, JERRY STEPHEN, "PATTERNS OF ROLE BEHAVIOR IN SMALL SOCIAL SYSTEMS" (1963). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6304773.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6304773