The Emergence and Development of Sociometry

Erdogan A.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY-SOSYOLOJI DERGISI, cilt.3, sa.27, ss.387-414, 2013 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 3 Sayı: 27
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY-SOSYOLOJI DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.387-414
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Jacob Levy Moreno, American Sociology, Sociology of Small Groups, Mathematical Formulations in Social Analysis, Sociodrama
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this paper, the emergence of conditions for Sociometrics as a scientific discipline in the beginning of the 20th century, a period during which a local sociology was born in the USA, and its development after the outbreak of the Second World War is discussed. Sociometrics was begun to be studied and read in various languages as a means to provide solutions to social problems in the USA around the 1950s, parallel with the nascent impression of USA domination throughout the world. The integration of immigrants and the problems in the business world constitute the interest fields of Sociometrics. The relationships of workers, students and prisoners etc. between individuals and between groups became the primary interests of Sociometrics. Jacob Levy, the founder of this discipline, and his colleagues developed techniques and methods in order to estimate social, cultural and psychological dynamics in these types of relationships. The theory of Sociometrics and its topics mirror the tendencies of early American sociology.