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> Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years. I think that's one of the roles

• sph 3y ago
  OK, perhaps not how they behave, but how best to leverage their potential, while sociological research has mostly been applied to making people work in harmony in large companies or institutions. In fact during my short research on the matter, one source explicitly lamented the fact that pretty much no one has been doing any significant study on small group dynamics since the 70s. All the money is how to make us efficient cogs for the Machine, not how to form small, nimble groups up to of 5 or 6 that are tightly united and motivated in the pursuit of a single goal, often massively more productive than a large system that mostly relies on politics and hierarchy to keep everyone marching in the same direction.
  • HKH2 3y ago
    Well it might sound trite, but sociology is predominantly made up of left wing big government types, so there's no surprise there.