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FORCE FIELD THEORY

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Kurt Lewin

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Kurt
was

Lewin (1890-1947)

a famous, charismatic psychologist who is now viewed as the father of social psychology. Born in Germany. well known for his terms life space and field theory. Gestalt psychologist

was

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INFLUENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF KURT LEWIN

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Field

Theory

is

a psychological theory which examines patterns of interaction between the individual and the total field, or

 Group
Is

Dynamics

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the study of groups, and also a general term for group processes. the fields of psychology, sociology, and communication studies,-- a group is two or more individuals who are connected to each other by social relationships.

In

Force

Field Analysis

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is an influential development in the field of social science.

a framework for looking at the factors ("forces") that influence a situation, originally social situations.

is a management technique for diagnosing

 Driving

Forces - are those forces affecting situations that are pushing in a particular direction; they tend to initiate a change and keep it going.

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Restraining

Forces - are forces acting to restrain or decrease the driving forces. - is reached

Equilibrium

Example

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Using the technique

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The first step is to draw a box within which you write the decision. Then you list all the helping and hindering forces. For example you want to buy a new car.

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Having spent some time trying to think of all the forces in play you then assign a strength to each force between 1 and 5 where 1 is weak and 5 is strong:

We can then add up the strengths of the forces to give a helping: hindering ratio. In this case it is 7:11 so initially it looks like the decision to buy a new car will not be made because the

If we do want the decision to go ahead we can now look for ways to increase the helping forces and decrease the hindering forces.

3 2

1 1 1 7 1 4

Looking at the hindering forces: Cost: If I leased a car then I could change this from 4 to 2. Time: As I don't have much time to look at other models I could always just buy the same model which would change this score from 4 to 1. Which model: Would therefore also decrease from 3 to 1. ---So by decreasing

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Action research

or participatory action research is areflective processof progressiveproblem solving led by individuals working with others in teams or as part of a " community of practice" to

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Group

dynamics

Theinteractionsthatinflue

ncetheattitudesandbehav iorof peoplewhentheyaregroup edwithothersthrough either choiceoraccidentalcircums tances.

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