The social engagement of social science: a Tavistock anthology : Volume 3: The socio-ecological perspective

World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes, "The Social Engagement of Social Science."There are three perspectives: the socio-psychological, the socio-technical, and the socio-ecological. These perspectives are interdependent, yet each has its own focus and is represented in a separate volume.Volume I, The Socio-Psychological Perspective, extends the object-relations approach in psychoanalysis to group, organizational, and wider social life. This extension is related to field theory, the personality/culture approach, and open systems theory. Action-oriented papers deal with key ideas in social psychiatry, varieties of group process, new paths in family studies, the dynamics of organizational change, and the unconscious in culture and society.The Institute's dynamic social science approach to industrial problems, which will be presented in Volume II, began with Eric Trist's coal-mining program for the development of more productive and personally satisfying self-regulating forms of work organization. The whole "Quality of Working Life" movement owes its theoretical and empirical basis to this pathfinding endeavor.Volume III will focus on non-hierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments—the socio-ecological perspective. This perspective is offered as a guide to institution building for the future

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Overview: The Foundation and Development of the Tavistock Institute to 1989 -- Introduction to Volume III -- Formulating the Perspective -- The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments -- The Next Thirty Years: Concepts, Methods and Anticipations -- Conceptual Developments -- Passive Maladaptive Strategies -- Active Maladaptive Strategies -- The Extended Social Field and Its Informational Structure -- Active Adaptation: The Emergence of Ideal-Seeking Systems -- Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains -- Hyperturbulence and the Emergence of Type V Environments -- The Vortical Environment: The Fifth in the Emery-Trist Levels of Organizational Environments -- Educational Paradigms: An Epistemological Revolution -- Adaptive Systems for Our Future Governance -- Methodological Developments -- Methodological Premises of Social Forecasting -- A Graph Theoretic Approach to the Investigation of System-Environment Relationships -- Causal Path Analysis -- Project Australia: Measuring Ideals in a Nation -- Co-Genetic Logic: A Foundation for Behavior Logic -- On Various Approaches to the Study of Organizations -- The Search Conference: Design and Management of Learning with a Solution to the "Pairing" Puzzle -- Planning and Policy -- Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning -- Connective Planning: From Practice to Theory and Back -- Planning for Real but Different Worlds -- Policy: Appearance and Reality -- Operational Papers -- The Environment and System Response Capability: A Futures Perspective -- Industrial Democracy and Regional Decentralization -- Quality of Working Life and Community Development: Some Reflections on the Jamestown Experience -- On Participative Democracy -- Design and Change in Ship Organization.

World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes, "The Social Engagement of Social Science."There are three perspectives: the socio-psychological, the socio-technical, and the socio-ecological. These perspectives are interdependent, yet each has its own focus and is represented in a separate volume.The Institute's dynamic social science approach to industrial problems, presented in this second volume, began with Eric Trist's coal-mining program for the development of more productive and personally satisfying self-regulating forms of work organization. The whole "Quality of Life" movement owes its theoretical and empirical basis to this pathfinding endeavor.Volume I, The Socio-Psychological Perspective, extended the object-relations approach in psychoanalysis to group, organizational, and wider social life. This extension is related to field theory, the personality/culture approach, and open systems theory. Action-oriented papers deal with key ideas in social psychiatry, varieties of group process, new paths in family studies, the dynamics of organizational change, and the unconscious in culture and society.Volume III will focus on non-hierarchical forms of organization facilitating inter-organizational relations in complex and rapidly changing environments--the socio-ecological perspective. This perspective is offered as a guide to institution building for the future

Bion Revisited: Group Dynamics and Group PsychotherapyAn Educational Model for Group Dynamics: The Phenomenon of an Absent Leader; Experiential Learning in Groups I: The Development of the Leicester Model; Experiential Learning in Groups II: Recent Developments in Dissemination and Application; The Psycho-Dynamics of an Inter-Group Experience; Courses and Working Conferences as Transitional Learning Institutions; Action Research in Minisocieties; Task and Sentient Systems and Their Boundary Controls; Individual, Group and Inter-Group Processes; New Paths in Family Studies