Macht en hulp in de theoretische hoogbouw. Een kritiek op de machtsexperimenten van M. Mulder

Samenvatting

A critique of 2 books by M. Mulder, a theoretical study, Groepstructuur, Motivatie en Prestatie (Group Structure, Motivation and Achievement, The Hague: COP, 1958) and a report on several experts, Mensen, Groepen, Organisaties (Men, Groups, Organizations, Assen, 1963). Mulder's concept of help is vitiated by his treating psychol'al and sociological phenomena as interchangeable values; his exp'al studies of help suffer from his belief that his S's are interchangeable. Experimental methods can, in any case, do little to determine the basic motivations of help; the most they can do is to study willingness to help as a social phenomenon. I. Langnas.