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If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

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Any planned social change will have to consider a multitude of factors characteristic for the particular case. The change may require a more or less unique combination of educational and organizational measures; it may depend upon quite different treatments or Ideology, expectation and organization. Still, certain general formal principles always have to be considered.

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Lewin formally defines a Gestalt as:
a system whose parts are dynamically connected in such a way that a change of one part results in a change of all other parts.

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The objective of social change might concern the nutritional standard of consumption, the economic standard of living, the type of group relation, the output of a factory, the productivity of an educational team. It is important that a social standard to be changed does not have the nature of a thing but of a process..

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To instigate changes toward democracy a situation has to be created for a certain period where the leader is sufficiently in control to rule out influences he does not want and to manipulate the situation to a sufficient degree. The goal of the democratic leader in this transition period will have to be the same as any good teacher, namely to make himself superfluous, to be replaced by indigenous leaders from the group.

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The study of the conditions for change begins appropriately with an analysis of the conditions for no change, that is, for the state of equilibrium.

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