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Small groups and political behavior : a study of leadership / Sidney Verba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verba, Sidney, author.
- Series:
- Princeton legacy library.
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership.
- Small groups.
- Political psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1972.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Small Groups and Political Behavior".
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- I. Introduction
- What Is a Small Group?
- Plan of the Study
- II. The Primary Group and Politics
- The Rediscovery of the Primary Group
- Pressures to Conform in the Face-to-Face Group
- The Small Group and Political Behavior
- The Small Group and the Political System
- Conclusion
- III. Experiments and the Political Process 1: The Culture of the Laboratory
- The Experimental Method
- The Culture of the Laboratory
- IV. Experiments and the Political Process 2: Bridging the Gap
- Laboratory Culture and Political Culture: Some Similarities
- Life-like Experiments
- The Uses of Experimental Studies
- V. The Concept of Leadership
- The Political Study of Leadership
- Leadership as a Group Function
- The Behaviors of Leaders
- The Origins of Leadership
- Observation and Measurement of Leadership
- VI. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 1
- Small Group Analysis as a Tool
- The Dual Leadership Task in Small Groups
- The Dual Leadership Task in On-going Systems
- Conflicting Expectations: Their Effect on the Group
- VII. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 2
- Conflicting Expectations: Their Resolution in Small Groups
- Conflicting Expectations: Their Resolution in On-going Systems
- Experimental Groups and On-going Social Systems compared
- VIII. Leadership and the Norms of the Group
- The Leader as Conformist
- The Leader as Deviant
- The Content of Conformity
- Group Change and the Conformist-Innovator Dilemma
- IX. The Participation Hypothesis 1: Application of a Small Group Finding
- The Iowa Experiments
- Democracy in Small Groups
- Strains on Democratic Leadership
- X. The Participation Hypothesis 2: The Generality of a Small Group Finding
- Why Participation Works
- Does Participation Always Work?
- Conclusion.
- XI. A Concluding Note
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 903442358
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