Some Predictors of Volunteer Participation in Human Relations Training Groups

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 499-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Kuiken ◽  
R. V. Rasmussen ◽  
Dallas Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Training Groups ◽  
Volunteer Participation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Relations Training

Though researchers have investigated the differences between volunteers and non-volunteers for psychological research, little is known about these differences when the research setting is a T-group. In the present study, volunteers and non-volunteers for T-groups were compared on authoritarianism, reported history of self-disclosure, and a series of questions on social relations. Volunteers, especially males, were lower in authoritarianism, whereas no differences were obtained for histories of self-disclosure. Also, female volunteers reported that they were less satisfied with their abilities to relate to others and that they spent less time with others. It was suggested that males may make a choice to volunteer by considering the compatibility of their social and political attitudes and those implied by T-groups. On the other hand, females may make their choice by considering their personal social relationships.

Afterword

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-218
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of

This chapter includes an interview with Rebecca Lemov on the history of anthropological collaboration. It discusses Lemov's dissertation on the history of collaborations created by anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s that became known as the Human Relations Area Files. It also describes Lemov's work as a dream of achieving social control or human engineering through an advanced behaviorism via advanced behaviorist design. The chapter mentions Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology, recognized as CIMA and SILA, which was done in Latin America during World War II as some of Lemov's projects. It talks about the Harvard Department of Social Relations Five Cultures project, which was an intensive study of five neighboring demarcated cultures in Ramah, New Mexico.

Online Communities

2012 ◽  
pp. 121-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Linaa Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Traditional Communities

I will take the point of departure in traditional sociological understandings and definitions of community. Next, I will give a brief summary of the history of online social phenomena, major debates and attempts to define community online. It is followed by a thematic discussion of ideas and practices of online social relationships. I will argue that the traditional focus on community as the dominant metaphor in understanding social formation online might be somehow mistaken as the Internet, although not necessarily unable to foster genuine social relations, is materially different from the realm in which traditional communities were shaped. It is claimed, in the end, that a framework encompassing logics of network might be appropriate in understanding online communities.

scholarly journals Maintaining paternalism, retaining patriarchy: Gender and class in a Finnish industrial company, 1880–1980

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-419
Author(s):  
Matias Kaihovirta
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Industrial Company

This article examines industrial paternalism in Finland throughout a century, from the 1880s to the 1980s, and coincides with the rise and decline of industrial society in the history of Western capitalism. The focus of the article is on social relationships between management and employees in an ironworks in Billnäs, located in south-western Finland, and how it developed and changed during the studied time period. Applying a microscopic historical analysis, this article looks at universal phenomenon, namely concerning social relations and gender in the world of industrial paternalism in concrete detail. In addition to a historical understanding of paternalism, the article also contributes to a broader understanding of the relationship between social and economic relations in paternalist organizations with a view to exploring the cultural understandings of gender and class.

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