Abstract
SINCE the autumn of 1935, a competent group of British psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists, ultimately twenty-three in number, has been meeting twice yearly in discussion. This unique, invaluable book, comprising nineteen chapters written by seventeen members of the group, is the outcome of their deliberations. Each chapter, we are told in the preface, “was first written by the group member whose name appears at its head. It was then duplicated and sent to all the other group members, so that it could be criticized and discussed at the next meeting of the group. . . . The criticism has been free and often drastic, but mainly constructive. Every member of the group has played a part in this discussion, and the volume is thus, in a literal sense, a co-operative product.”
The Study of Society
Methods and Problems. Edited by F. C. Bartlett M. Ginsberg E. J. Lindgren R. H. Thouless. Pp. xii+498. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Study of Society. Nature 144, 685–686 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144685a0
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