George C. Homans Quote

If we wanted to establish the reality of a social system as a complex of mutually dependent elements, why not begin by studying a system small enough so that we could, so to speak, see all the way around it, small enough so that all the relevant observations could be made in detail and at first hand?


The Human group, 1950


If we wanted to establish the reality of a social system as a complex of mutually dependent elements, why not begin by studying a system small enough ...

If we wanted to establish the reality of a social system as a complex of mutually dependent elements, why not begin by studying a system small enough ...

If we wanted to establish the reality of a social system as a complex of mutually dependent elements, why not begin by studying a system small enough ...

If we wanted to establish the reality of a social system as a complex of mutually dependent elements, why not begin by studying a system small enough ...