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Civilian Morale (Paperback)
Goodwin Watson; Foreword by James J. Gibson, Robert B. MacLeod
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Discovery Miles 11 820
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This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to
social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years
in a German prison camp of World War I. Four thousand men and boys
from the most varied walks of life—professors, seamen, jockeys,
schoolboys, bank directors, musicians, clerks, scientists—were
taken from civilian life and placed in Ruhleben on the outbreak of
war; no activities were prescribed for them, no direction was given
to their communal life. In the event, this miscellaneous group of
people, closed off from the world, create d their own society. This
book is the story of how they did it and what the society they made
was like; much more than this, the camp provides a gifted and
sympathetic social psychologist with a rare opportunity for study
and analysis of an important if inadvertent social experiment. The
time elapsed between the event itself and the completion of the
book may in one way be regretted; it did, however, allow the
author, who was himself and inmate of Ruhleben, the opportunity for
mature reflection on its meaning. The book is a contribution to the
history of World War I; it is also a basic and timeless study of
the dynamics of individual and group behaviour.
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