Download or read book The Human Group written by George Caspar Homans and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of even the smallest groups is extremely complex. Homans concentrates on certain activities and processes he observes in five carefully selected and differentiated case studies and from them draws common patterns and ideas that serve as the bases of testable propositions. In all five cases, Homans selects comparable phenomena for analysis with a contextually different emphasis and elaboration each time.