Interaction - process analysis has given precision to our concepts and improved our understanding of leadership in the task-oriented small group. For recreational groups, however, this approach is found to be inadequate. The usefulness of the term 'leadership' is questioned and a need is expressed for concepts treating the effect of shared experiences on long-term structural changes. By treating leadership as a collective phenomenon - the 'power structure' - and shared experiences as 'group tradition', one can analyze the behaviour of a recreational group over an extended period. Several quite distinct stages of development can be isolated, ranging from a founding period to an atomization period, and the concepts of power structure and tradition are used to explain the passage from one stage to another. The role of small group development in the integration of minority groups to a host society is also considered. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116582 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Millett, David Reid. |
| Contributors | Breton, R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Sociology and Anthropology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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