ABSTRACT
Small-group research is newly rooted in the cranny between individual psychology, on the one hand, and sociology and social anthropology, disciplines devoted to the study of large-scale societies, on the other. The relation of his field of investigation to kindred fields must sooner or later be a matter of concern to a scholar, and as a sociologist who has worked in the small-group area, I must at some time concern myself with its relations to the science of society. Nevertheless I am going to argue that we “small-group men” should not, at this moment, worry about our foreign relations. The rest of this essay will be given over to explaining in just what sense—and it is not common sense—I mean this.
