The Transformation as Sandbox Syndrome
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Humanistic Psychology
- Vol. 23 (1) , 7-15
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167883231002
Abstract
Belief that a social transformation is happening serves to keep it from happening. Behaviors associated with the sandbox of political impotency include: pronouncement of actual or imminent success, confusion of goals and results, an acritical stance, hubris, an incapacitating dialect, pseudoholism, egalitarian blinders, and self-centeredness. Upward growth to escape the Sandbox Syndrome is a necessary ingredient of any serious social change.Keywords
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