Advances in Field Theory

Susan Wheelan was president of GDQ Associates, Inc. Until 2001, she was a professor of psychological studies and faculty director of the Training and Development Center at Temple University. Dr. Wheelan received Temple University's Great Teacher Award in 1992. She also worked as a psychologist in a number of hospital and clinical settings. Dr. Wheelan was the author of Facilitating Training Groups; Group Processes: A Developmental Perspective; Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders; and Faculty Groups: From Frustration to Collaboration. She was editor of the Handbook of Group Research and Practice and coeditor of The Lewin Legacy: Field Theory in Current Practice and Advances in Field Theory. She wrote 66 research articles for publication.

Introduction Advancing Field Theory PART ONE: THEORETICAL ADVANCES: THE BEGINNINGS Field Theory in Social Science What Made It Creative The Study of Everyday Life - Anitra Karsten Democracy in the Research Team - Ralph White Enthusiasm for the Work - Morton Deutsch Woe unto You that are a Grandchild - Kurt W Back Kurt Lewin's Films and Their Role in the Development of Field Theory - Mel van Elteren and Helmut E Luck PART TWO: THEORETICAL ADVANCES: PRESENT CONSTRUCTIONS World Fields Two `Field Theories' - Martin Gold Field Theory and the Construction of Social Problems - Susan A Wheelan and Vicki Abt A Relational Perspective Kurt Lewin in China - Shen Heyong On the Nature of the Next Generation of Issues - Fred Emery Social Processes The Family as a Special Group - Kurt W Back Boundaries and Dynamics Topological Psychology of Abnormal Syndromes - Matthew Maibaum Lewin on Unreality Two Paradigms in Developmental Studies of Language - Ana Marjanovic-Shane An Old Controversy in New Clothes Cooperation, Conflict and Justice - Morton Deutsch Social Comparison, Relative Deprivation and Pupil Interaction - Emmy A Pepitone Homogeneous Versus Heterogeneous Classrooms Interpersonal and Intergroup Methods of Managing Social Conflict - Murray Horwitz and Norman H Berkowitz PART THREE: ADVANCES IN APPLICATIONS World Fields Group Dynamics, Action Research and Intergroup Relations - Susan A Wheelan and Eugene H Stivers Strategies for Arab-Jewish Conflict Management Workshops - David Bargal and Haviva Bar Social Psychiatric Field Studies in Oslo - Odd Steffen Dalgard, Trine Anstorp, Kirsten Benum, Tom Sorensen and Torbjorn Moum Some Preliminary Results Level of Aspiration Theory and Quality of Life in Cross-Cultural Research - Robert J Kleiner and Barnabas Okeke Social Processes Action Research in the Voluntary Sector - Mark A Chesler A Case Study of Scholar-Activist Roles in Self-Help Groups The Social Agency as a Field of Forces - Willard C Richan and Robert J Kleiner A Program Evaluation Strategy The Etiology of Academic Sex Discrimination - Ethel D Kahn and Frank B W Hawkinshire Research in Progress Lewin's Paradigm of Planned Change - Frank B W Hawkinshire and William A Liggett Theory and Application