On the Current Confusion of Group-related Behavior and Collective Behavior: A Reaction to Buys
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 4 (4) , 564-567
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727800400413
Abstract
Buys (1978) published a literature review which led him to conclude that "humans would do better without mbst forms of groups." Buys' conclusion is rejected and his paper is re- viewed as symptomatic of the "crisis" in social psychology. It is argued that social psychologists, like Buys, have lost contact with sociological theory and have repeatedly confused collective behavior with group-related behavior. Buys' con- clusion is restated as a problem for social-psychological research.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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