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Show CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION People needs common that this the associate themselves in a wide It is and to serve mutual interests. requirements for the full development The resulting of ways to meet commonly agreed social interaction with other people is constructive Wilson and variety 'groups assume a of the human of one personality the individual. unique importance to Ryland comment: Human beings What beings. can a man be understood is, only by is reflected in relation to other human the behavior of other men' thinks of himself 'is his judgment of The behavior pattern of any the reactions of other men to him. individual is a mirror of his total life-experience, most of which What toward himo a man If one is to understand is ip groups. know·the groups to which he an individul_ one must . belongs.l One in c.Lose frquent pattern develops among people living physical proximity, Le.) neighbors. have ships of interaction changed neighborhood still Although these rela:tion- with the shift from rural to urban society, the has not lost its of the importance one as groups in which people meet their psycho-social eedso significant Jessie Bernard states: points still remains classical. neighborhood, along with the family and pointed play group, constituted one of the most important factors in personality growtho2 Cooley's He discussion of these out that the . IGertrude Wilson and ,,(Cambridge: 'The Riverside . wi th XVIII Gladys Ryland, Social Group Work Press, 1949), p.' 37. Practice 2Jessie Bernard, nAn Instrument for the Measurement of Neighborhood The Southwestern Social Science_.Quarterly Experimental Applications, ff (September, 1939), po 1450 |
