ABSTRACT
The central conceptual and ideological terms which both held the policies together and added the needed political underpinnings was “community". The key words of “integrated field” and “system” revealed that Klein was adopting a view of community as a system of mutually interacting subsystems in a state of equilibrium which tend toward self-maintenance. One concern was that the consultants might upset these cultural frameworks causing conflict to arise. Such organizational conflict was likened to a patient’s conflict or crises which “lays bare conscious and unconscious motivations, goals, and philosophies, while consensus, although highly desirable, often leaves one satisfied but unenlightened". Community, although never specifically defined, was addressed by the project leaders in terms of the social and cultural characteristics of each district. It is instructive to look at the data from the consultants’ daily logs of their work to assess just how their role of community change agents was implemented.
