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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Changing selves, changing society: Human relations experts and the invention of T Groups, sensitivity training, and encounter in the United States, 1938--1980 Abstract: This dissertation traces the historical evolution and circulation of human relations training groups as a social technology that embodied changing ideas about individuals, groups, society, change, politics, and culture in the post-World War Two United States. Beginning in the late-1940s, a cohort of social psychologists and educators designed the T Group as a tool for training social workers, teachers, nurses, and ministers to be "change agents" who would help form a more democratic society. During the 1950s, however, a faction of clinical academics at UCLA reshaped the T Group into the more individually oriented sensitivity training, which then became a staple of the management training programs of many corporations and large organizations. In the late 1960s, this same technique entered popular culture as encounter groups, which claimed to help individuals reach their full "potential" as human beings. Drawing on published research findings, institutional records, personal papers, audiovisual materials, and oral history interviews, this dissertation explains the unusual career of this group technology that successfully circulated through the university, industry, and then into popular culture. |
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