GPA

4.00

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Extends the work of POL 51600 (Group Politics) to the empirical study of primary groups, cliques, social groups, voluntary associations, experimental and occupational groups (insofar as they have political impacts) and of political clubs and associations, paraparties, and inchoate political movements and parties. Training will be given in the use of phenomenological observation, interaction analysis, content analysis, personality inventories, and other instruments that reveal the social structure and dynamics of groups. Students will conduct field studies of politically-relevant groups, or will conduct or participate in conducting laboratory experiments.

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