The method was perhaps called "Social Analysis". In each situation, the "social analyst" joined hands with the people involved, to create knowledge that was appropriate to their unique situation - instead of using ready-made knowledge (that was created in other situations and probably inappropriate). I think there was a book: "Social Analysis" by Ralph Rowbottom.
Elliott Jacques and colleagues devised an action-research about 50 years ago. But I can't find info.?
Elliot Jacques
Psychoanalyst, management expert, social scientist. Jacques' theories of management, including his "Stratified Systems Theory" and other theories of what he calls "requisite organization", are routinely dismissed by egalitarians and advocates of soft, group-centred theories of organization and management. That contempt alone suggests their potential for interest to conservatives and truth-seekers in government and elsewhere. Author of Requisite Organization and others.
Reply:The book "Social Analysis" is available at globalro.org for a free download. They also have other interesting materials about Jaques et al's work. Report Abuse
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