Background
Bales, Robert Freed was born on March 9, 1916 in Ellington, Missouri, United States. Son of Columbus Lee and Ada Lois (Sloan) Bales.
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( Social Interaction Systems is the culmination of a hal...)
Social Interaction Systems is the culmination of a half century of work in the field of social psychology by Robert Freed Bales, a pioneer at the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. Led by Talcott Parsons, Gordon W. Allport, Henry A. Murray, and Clyde M. Kluckhohn, the Harvard Project was intended to establish an integrative framework for social psychology, one based on the interaction process, augmented by value content analysis. Bales sees this approach as a personal involvement that goes far beyond the classical experimental approach to the study of groups. Bales developed SYMLOG, which stands for systematic multiple level observation of groups. The SYMLOG Consulting Group approach was worldwide as well as interactive. It created a data bank that made possible a search for general laws of human interaction far beyond anything thus far known. In his daring search for universal features, Bales redefines the fundamental boundaries of the field, and in so doing establishes criteria for the behavior and values of leaders and followers. Bales offers a new "field theory," an appreciation of the multiple contexts in which people live. Bales does not aim to eradicate differences, but to understand them. In this sense, the values inherent in any interaction situation permit the psychologist to appreciate the sources of polarization as they actually exist: between conservative and liberal, individualistic and authoritarian, libertarian and communitarian. Bales repeatedly emphasizes that the mental processes of individuals and their social interactions take place in systematic contexts which can be measured. Hence they permit explanation and prediction of behavior in a more exact way than in past traditions. Bales has offered a pioneering work that has the potential to move us into a new theoretical epoch no less than a new century. His work holds out the promise of synthesis and support for psychologists, sociologists, and all who work with groups and organizations of all kinds.
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Bales, Robert Freed was born on March 9, 1916 in Ellington, Missouri, United States. Son of Columbus Lee and Ada Lois (Sloan) Bales.
Bachelor of Arts, University Oregon, 1938; Master of Sciences, University Oregon, 1941; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1945.
Research associate section on alcohol studies, Yale University, 1944-1945;
instructor sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1945-1947;
assistant professor sociology, research associate Laboratory Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947-1951;
lecturer sociology, research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951-1955;
associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955-1957;
professor social relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957-1986;
professor emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1986;
director Laboratory Social Rels., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960-1967;
chairman social psychology program, department psychology and social relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-1982;
consultant psychology, Harvard University Health Superior vena cava syndrome, 1970-1982. Visiting lecturer sociology and social psychology University of Michigan, summer 1949, Columbia University, summer 1950. Lecturer Salzberg Austria Seminar of America Studies, summer 1952, 56.
Member of the board science counsellors National Institute of Mental Health, 1957-1960.
( Social Interaction Systems is the culmination of a hal...)
(First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
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Trustee Ella L. Cabot Trust. Member of Boston Psychoanalytic Society (affiliate), Society Experimental Social Psychology, American Psychological Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Eastern Sociological Society (president 1962-1963), American Sociological Association, American Psychological Association (Outstanding Contribution to Leadership and Organizational Excellence award California chapter division of I/O psychology 1999, Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession award California chapter 2001).
Married Dorothy Louise Johnson, September 14, 1941.
