biography
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Homans, George (Caspar)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–89)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Cambridge University, UK, and taught at Harvard (1946–80). An authority on the social behaviour of small groups, he posited group behaviour to be the result of individual behaviour, and wrote such books as The Human Group (1950), Sentiments and Activities (1962), and Certainties and Doubts (1987). |
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