Review of Sociometry in group relations

Abstract

Reviews the book, "Sociometry in group relations," by Helen Hall Jennings (see record 1949-04197-000 ). Jennings and her associates in the project in Intergroup Education in Cooperating Schools has supplied a guide for teachers in the use of sociometric methods. Techniques for selecting situations, framing questions, tabulating choices, and constructing sociograms are described in detail. However, the pamphlet is more than a manual, for leads for the analysis of the process back of the group structure are supplied with much insight based on previous experiment and experience. Suggestions for interviews, for individual treatment, for structural changes, and for the appraisal of growth through successive sociograms are given. Illustrations are presented of problems arising from social, race, and religious differences and of promising ways for improvement. While the report is based on classroom settings the range of implications and applications is over the entire field of interpersonal relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)