The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 1 : : The Socio-Psychological Perspective / / Eric Trist, Beulah Trist, Hugh Murray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Murray, Hugh,; Trist, Beulah,; Trist, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes, "The Social Engagement of Social Science."There are three perspectives: the socio-psychological, the socio-technical, and the socio-ecological. These perspectives are interdependent, yet each has its own focus and is represented in a separate volume.Volume I, The Socio-Psychological Perspective, extends the object-relations approach in psychoanalysis to group, organizational, and wider social life. This extension is related to field theory, the personality/culture approach, and open systems theory. Action-oriented papers deal with key ideas in social psychiatry, varieties of group process, new paths in family studies, the dynamics of organizational change, and the unconscious in culture and society.The Institute's dynamic social science approach to industrial problems, which will be presented in Volume II, began with Eric Trist's coal-mining program for the development of more productive and personally satisfying self-regulating forms of work organization. The whole "Quality of Working Life" movement owes its theoretical and empirical basis to this pathfinding endeavor.Volume III will focus on non-hierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments-the socio-ecological perspective. This perspective is offered as a guide to institution building for the future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Overview -- Introduction -- The Transformation of Selection Procedures -- The Discovery of the Therapeutic Community -- Transitional Communities and Social Reconnection -- Bion Revisited -- An Educational Model for Group Dynamics -- Experiential Learning in Groups I -- Experiential Learning in Groups II -- The Psycho-Dynamics of an Inter-Group Experience -- Courses and Working Conferences as Transitional Learning Institutions -- Action Research in Minisocieties -- Task and Sentient Systems and Their Boundary Controls -- Individual, Group and Inter-Group Processes -- The Study and Reduction of Group Tensions in the Family -- Non-Medical Marital Therapy -- Conjugal Roles and Social Networks -- Dual-Career Families -- Working-Through Industrial Conflict -- The Use of Unrecognized Cultural Mechanisms in an Expanding Machine Shop -- On the Dynamics of Social Structure -- Social Systems as a Defense Against Anxiety -- A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Social Institutions -- The Assumption of Ordinariness as a Denial Mechanism -- Temporary Withdrawal from Work Under Full Employment -- Freedom and Justice Within Walls -- Culture as a Psycho-Social Process -- Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word Democracy -- Notes on the Russian National Character -- Latent Content of Television Viewing -- Asylum and Society -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index