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On the Current Confusion of Group-related Behavior and Collective Behavior: A Reaction to Buys

The Nebraska Wesleyan University

Buys (1978) published a literature review which led him to conclude that "humans would do better without mbst forms of groups." Buys' conclusion is rejected and his paper is re- viewed as symptomatic of the "crisis" in social psychology. It is argued that social psychologists, like Buys, have lost contact with sociological theory and have repeatedly confused collective behavior with group-related behavior. Buys' con- clusion is restated as a problem for social-psychological research.

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