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Kurt Lewin and social change
Author(s) -
Heims Steve
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(197807)14:3<238::aid-jhbs2300140308>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - social change , politics , sociology , dimension (graph theory) , character (mathematics) , epistemology , political change , social science , social psychology , psychology , political science , philosophy , law , geometry , mathematics , pure mathematics
In this brief comment. Lewin is viewed as a thinker about social change, and the political dimension of some of his recommendations for social change is noted. Although his analysis of the situation of minority groups was applicable to American blacks, his role as social engineer stood in the way of his implementing some of his own insights. Lewin's ideas for altering the character structure of a whole culture by means of political change together with the use of small groups, deserve to be examined in the light of major cultural transformations that are historically documented.