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Dorwin Cartwright, in his presidential address to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, noted that social power, long the prerogative of political scientists and philosophers, was a sadly neglected variable in social psychology.

As director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics, he encouraged and coordinated his colleagues and other social psychologists in clarifying and exploring the dynamics of social power.

On completing his doctoral studies at Harvard University in , Cartwright accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Iowa State University with Kurt Lewin, who was well known for his work in field theory.

Dorwin cartwright biography samples free It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Swarthmore College Harvard University. Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Cartwright's research and writing topics included the mathematical foundations of group dynamics, the sources of social power, the nature of group structure and the causes of risk taking in groups.

When the United States became an active participant in World War II, Cartwright accepted an appointment from Rensis Likert to move to Washington, D.C., to join Likert's research program in evaluating opinions, attitudes, and behavior related to the war effort. Cartwright's first major assignment was to conduct a series of national surveys evaluating the effectiveness of war bond drives.

Related studies of group discussion and group decision indicated that, beyond informational appeals, the power of the group could play an important role in changing food habits, such as encouraging housewives to serve nutritious but less popular cuts of meat to help alleviate the wartime meat shortage. Later research indicated that in similar fashion, work group productivity could also be increased.

After Lewin's untimely death in , Cartwright assumed directorship of the Research Center for Group Dynamics, which Lewin had established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and coordinated its relocation to the University of Michigan.

There, Cartwright edited Field Theory in Social Science, a collection of important articles by Kurt Lewin.

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Cartwright also edited Studies in Social Power, which opened with his presidential address to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and included a series of theoretical works and experiments. His concluding chapter proposed a field theoretical conception of social power.

Though the term social power was indeed neglected by social psychologists, many relevant [Page 90]variables had been investigated.

This became more clear once social power was defined as the ability or potential of an influencing agent (O) to influence a change in a target (P). A substantial body of research on social influence on attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and behavior could now be examined in terms of the potential for such influence&#;social power.

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The studies of group norms and group decisions, as in the studies of food habits, or group decisions affecting level of worker productivity (John R. P. French and Lester Coch), represented the power of the group. Leadership could then be considered in terms of social power&#;the manner in which a leader might use his or her available resources to affect the beliefs and behavior of followers.

Kurt Lewin, Ronald Lippitt, and Ralph White illustrated this conception of power in experiments on effectiveness of democratic, autocratic, and laissez-faire leadership. Field studies of the way behavior patterns spread among boys in a camp setting (Ronald Lippitt, Norman Polanski, and Sidney Rosen) could be also be understood in terms of social power relationships.

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John R. P. French and Bertram Raven, as part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics program coordinated by Cartwright, developed their widely cited analysis of the bases of social power.

  • Adler, Alfred
  • Adorno, Theodor
  • Althusser, Louis
  • Arendt, Hannah
  • Aristotle
  • Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton
  • Bakunin, Mikhail
  • Barry, Brian
  • Bourdieu, Pierre
  • Bull, Hedley
  • Carr, E.

    H.

  • Cartwright, Dorwin
  • Castells, Manuel
  • Clausewitz, Carl von
  • Clegg, Stewart
  • Coleman, James S.
  • Cox, Robert W.
  • Dahl, Robert A.
  • Deutsch, Karl
  • Domhoff, G. William
  • Dowding, Keith
  • Eagly, Alice
  • Felsenthal, Dan S.
  • Fiske, Susan
  • Flyvbjerg, Bent
  • Foucault, Michel
  • French, John R.

    P., Jr.

  • Giddens, Anthony
  • Gramsci, Antonio
  • Granovetter, Mark
  • Habermas, J&#;rgen
  • Hall, Judith A.
  • Harsanyi, John C.
  • Haugaard, Mark
  • Hobbes, Thomas
  • Holler, Manfred
  • Hunter, Floyd
  • Jessop, Bob
  • Jost, John
  • Kropotkin, Peter
  • Laclau, Ernesto, and Mouffe, Chantal
  • Lasswell, Harold
  • Lewin, Kurt, and Power
  • Luhmann, Niklas
  • Lukes, Steven
  • Machiavelli, Niccol&#;
  • Machover, Mosh&#;
  • Mann, Michael
  • Marx, Karl
  • McClelland, David
  • Michels, Robert
  • Miliband, Ralph
  • Mills, C.

    Wright

  • Morgenthau, Hans J.
  • Morriss, Peter
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • Parsons, Talcott
  • Poulantzas, Nicos
  • Raven, Bertram
  • Riker, William H.
  • Sabatier, Paul
  • Scott, James
  • Spence, Janet
  • Sprout, Harold
  • Waltz, Kenneth
  • Weber, Max
  • Wight, Martin
  • Wolfers, Arnold
  • Wright, Quincy
  • Ability
  • Ableness
  • Absolutism
  • Adverse Selection
  • Agency
  • Agenda Power
  • Agenda Setters
  • Argument, Power of
  • Authority
  • Autonomy
  • Bargaining
  • Blackmail
  • Bureaucratic Power
  • Cabal
  • Capability
  • Capital, Marxist
  • Causation
  • Coercion, Analytic
  • Coercion and Power
  • Collective Action Problem
  • Complex Equality (Walzer)
  • Consent
  • Control
  • Cooperation
  • Coordination
  • Corruption
  • Decentering (of Subject, of Structure)
  • Deflected Wants
  • Deliberation
  • Determinacy
  • Determinism
  • Discipline
  • Discourse
  • Dispositif
  • Domain
  • Domination
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Exclusion
  • Exercise Fallacy
  • Exit and Voice as Forms of Power
  • Expectancy Confirmation, Power and
  • Exploitation
  • Fair Division
  • False Consciousness
  • Fear, Use of
  • Female Leadership Among Mammals
  • Free Market
  • Free Will
  • Freedom
  • Governmentality
  • Habitus
  • Hegemony
  • Hierarchy
  • Ideas
  • Ideology
  • Influence
  • Interests
  • Invisible Hand
  • Leadership
  • Legitimation
  • Loyalty
  • Luck
  • Luck, Brute
  • Manipulation
  • Mechanisms
  • Mobilization of Bias
  • Moral Hazard
  • Networks and Communities
  • Nonverbal Communication and Power
  • Opportunity
  • Perceptual Symbols of Power
  • Persuasion
  • Pluralism
  • Policy Entrepreneurs
  • Political Thinking as Power
  • Power Elite
  • Power Motive
  • Propaganda
  • Public Goods
  • Racism, Role of Power in
  • Rationality
  • Relative Autonomy of the State
  • Responsibility
  • Rhetoric
  • Scope
  • Second Face
  • Social Capital
  • Submissive
  • Subordination
  • Systematic Luck
  • Systemic Power
  • Third Face
  • Threats
  • Throffers
  • Trade
  • Trust
  • Unintended Consequences
  • Vehicle Fallacy
  • Will to Power
  • Agenda Power
  • Agenda Setters
  • Banzhaf Value
  • Banzhaf Voting Power Measure
  • Bargaining
  • Blocking Coalition
  • Bribe Index
  • Chicken Games
  • Coalition Theory
  • Coleman, James S.
  • Coleman Index
  • Computer Algorithms for Power Indices
  • Core of a Game
  • Dowding, Keith
  • Fair Division
  • Felsenthal, Dan S.
  • Game Forms, Power in
  • Game-Theoretical Approaches to Power
  • Grand Coalition
  • Gunboat Diplomacy
  • Harsanyi, John C.
  • Holler, Manfred
  • Homogeneous Weighted Majority Games
  • I-Power
  • Jurisdictions and Structure-Induced Equilibria
  • Machover, Mosh&#;
  • Martin Index
  • Minimal Winning Coalition
  • Mutually Assured Destruction
  • Non Decision Making
  • Noncooperative Games
  • Owen Value
  • Paradox of New Members
  • Parties, Policy-Seeking Versus Power-Seeking
  • Penrose Voting Power Measure
  • Pivot Player
  • Power Indices
  • Power Laws
  • Power to Initiate Action and Power to Prevent Action
  • P-Power
  • Preference Versus Nonpreference-Based Concepts
  • Proper Simple Game
  • Public Goods Index
  • Qualified Majority Voting
  • Quarreling Paradox
  • Shapley Value
  • Shapley&#;Shubik Index
  • Shareholder Voting Power
  • Simple Games
  • Small Worlds, Power in
  • Spatial Voting Analysis
  • Square Root Rules
  • Strategic Power Index
  • Tijs Value
  • U.S.

    Electoral College, Power in

  • Value of a Game
  • Variable-Sum Games
  • Veto Players
  • Veto Power
  • Voting Paradoxes
  • Voting Power
  • Weighted Majority Game
  • Weighted Voting
  • Agenda Power
  • Agenda Setters
  • Bicameral Legislature
  • Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrats
  • Bureaucratic Power
  • Capture Theory of Regulation
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Corporatism
  • Dominant Parties
  • e-Governance
  • Elections
  • Federal Structure
  • Internet and Power
  • Leadership
  • Media, The
  • Organization of the State
  • Political Parties
  • Prime Ministerial and Presidential
  • Principal-Agent Relationship
  • Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Referendums
  • Structure-Induced Equilibrium
  • Unicameral Legislature
  • U.S.

    Electoral College, Power in

  • Alliances
  • Anarchy in International Relations
  • Appeasement
  • Arms Race
  • Balance of Power
  • Banks
  • Bargaining in International Relations
  • Bull, Hedley
  • Carr, E. H.
  • Cartwright, Dorwin
  • Chicken Games
  • Civil War
  • Clausewitz, Carl von
  • Compliance (International)
  • Constructivist View of Power in International Relations
  • Conventional Deterrence
  • Cox, Robert W.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Defensive Realism
  • Dependency Theory in International Relations
  • Deterrence Theory
  • Deterrent Threats
  • Deutsch, Karl
  • Diplomacy
  • Empire
  • Environmental Treaties
  • Espionage
  • Executive Power
  • Extended Deterrence
  • Feminist International Relations, View of Power
  • First-Strike Capability
  • Gunboat Diplomacy
  • Hegemonic Power
  • Hegemonic War
  • Hegemony
  • Idealism in International Relations
  • Imperial Power
  • Imperialism
  • Intelligence
  • Lasswell, Harold
  • League of Nations
  • Military in Government
  • Morgenthau, Hans J.
  • Multinational Corporations
  • Mutually Assured Destruction
  • Neoliberalism
  • Neorealism
  • Offense/Defense Dominance
  • Postmodernist View of Power in International Relations
  • Power Transition Theory
  • Realism in International Relations
  • Regime Theory in International Relations
  • Sea Power
  • Security
  • Security Dilemma
  • Separation of Powers
  • Sovereignty
  • Spiral Model
  • Sprout, Harold
  • Strategic Interaction in International Relations
  • Terror Regimes
  • Terrorism
  • Waltz, Kenneth
  • War
  • Wight, Martin
  • Wolfers, Arnold
  • Wright, Quincy
  • Agency-Structure Problem
  • Authority
  • Caste System (India)
  • Chicken Games
  • Deliberative Democracy
  • Gender, Role of Power in
  • Heterosexism, Role of Power in
  • Hierarchy
  • Interdependence Theory
  • Leadership and Gender
  • Power as Control Theory
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Submissive
  • Veiled Women
  • Agency
  • Agency-Structure Problem
  • Autonomy
  • Bases of Power
  • Free Will
  • Gender, Role of Power in
  • Interdependence Theory
  • Leadership and Gender
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Submissive
  • Agency-Structure Problem
  • Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton
  • Barry, Brian
  • Bourdieu, Pierre
  • Community Power Debate
  • Consensual Power, Theories of
  • Critical Theory
  • Dahl, Robert A.
  • Defensive Realism
  • Deliberative Democracy
  • Dependency Theory in International Relations
  • Discourse
  • Domhoff, G.

    William

  • Domination
  • Dowding, Keith
  • Elite Theories
  • Essentially Contested Concept
  • Free Will
  • Freedom
  • Global Governance
  • Hunter, Floyd
  • Liberalism
  • Luck
  • Miliband, Ralph
  • Miliband-Poulantzas Debate
  • Mills, C. Wright
  • Mobilization of Bias
  • Neoliberalism
  • Neorealism
  • Non Decision Making
  • Organization of the State
  • Pluralism
  • Postmodernist View of Power in International Relations
  • Poulantzas, Nicos
  • Power as Control Theory
  • Power Elite
  • Power To and Power Over
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Queer Theories of Power
  • Rationality
  • Realism in International Relations
  • Regime Theory in International Relations
  • Regime Theory in Urban Politics
  • Relative Autonomy of the State
  • Resources as Measuring Power
  • Second Face
  • Social Dominance Theory
  • Spiral Model
  • Structural Power
  • Structural Suggestion
  • Structuration
  • Three Faces of Power
  • Transactional and Transformational Leadership
  • Adverse Selection
  • Agency-Structure Problem
  • Community Power Debate
  • Essentially Contested Concept
  • Exercise Fallacy
  • False Consciousness
  • Fungibility of Power Resources
  • Mechanisms
  • Pluralism
  • Power Elite
  • Power Laws
  • Preference Versus Nonpreference-Based Concepts
  • Principal-Agent Relationship
  • Rationality
  • Realism in International Relations
  • Realist Accounts of Power
  • Reputational Analysis
  • Resources as Measuring Power
  • Systematic Luck
  • Third Face
  • Three Faces of Power
  • Agenda Power
  • Agenda Setters
  • Authority
  • Banzhaf Value
  • Bicameral Legislature
  • Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrats
  • Bureaucratic Power
  • Business and Power
  • Capital, Marxist
  • Capital, Neoclassical
  • Capture Theory of Regulation
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Civil War
  • Coalition Theory
  • Collective Action Problem
  • Community Power Debate
  • Core Parties
  • Corporatism
  • Coup d'&#;tat
  • Dahl, Robert A.
  • Democracy
  • Dictatorship
  • Dominant Parties
  • Dowding, Keith
  • e-Governance
  • Elections
  • Executive Power
  • Fascism
  • Federal Structure
  • Global Governance
  • Globalization
  • Governmentality
  • Grand Coalition
  • Growth Coalitions
  • Heresthetics
  • Hierarchy
  • Hunter, Floyd
  • Intelligence
  • Internet and Power
  • Jursidictions and Structure-Induced Equilibria
  • Lasswell, Harold
  • Leadership
  • Legislative Power
  • Liberalism
  • Lukes, Steven
  • Martin Index
  • McClelland, David
  • Michels, Robert
  • Military in Government
  • Mills, C.

    Wright

  • Minimal Winning Coalition
  • Morriss, Peter
  • Nationalism
  • Organization of the State
  • Parties, Policy-Seeking Versus Power-Seeking
  • Parties, Strong and Very Strong
  • Pivotal Politics
  • Pluralism
  • Police State
  • Policy Entrepreneurs
  • Political Parties
  • Post-Fordism
  • Power Elite
  • Power To and Power Over
  • Prime Ministerial and Presidential
  • Principal-Agent Relationship
  • Realist Accounts of Power
  • Referendums
  • Relative Autonomy of the State
  • Revolution
  • Revolutionary Cell Structure
  • Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  • Riker, William H.
  • Riots
  • Second Face
  • Social Capital
  • Social Power
  • Spatial Voting Analysis
  • Structural Power
  • Structural Suggestion
  • Structure-Induced Equilibrium
  • Terror Regimes
  • Terrorism
  • Testosterone, Power and
  • Totalitarianism
  • Unicameral Legislature
  • U.S.

    Electoral College, Power in

  • Veiled Women
  • Veto Players
  • Vote-Maximizing Parties
  • Voting
  • Voting Paradoxes
  • Voting Power
  • Weber, Max
  • Weighted Voting
  • Women as Political Leaders
  • Agency-Structure Problem
  • Anarchism, Power in
  • Authority
  • Barry, Brian
  • Bourdieu, Pierre
  • Capital, Marxist
  • Capital, Neoclassical
  • Castells, Manuel
  • Deliberative Democracy
  • Democracy
  • Dispositif
  • Distributive Justice
  • Domhoff, G.

    William

  • Dowding, Keith
  • Freedom
  • Global Governance
  • Globalization
  • Governmentality
  • Gramsci, Antonio
  • Habermas, J&#;rgen
  • Hobbes, Thomas
  • Hunter, Floyd
  • Jessop, Bob
  • Justice
  • Liberalism
  • Lukes, Steven
  • Machiavelli, Niccol&#;
  • Marx, Karl
  • Michels, Robert
  • Miliband, Ralph
  • Mills, C.

    Wright

  • Morriss, Peter
  • Nationalism
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • Paternalism
  • Pluralism
  • Political Legitimacy
  • Post-Fordism
  • Poulantzas, Nicos
  • Power Elite
  • Power To and Power Over
  • Power With
  • Sabatier, Paul
  • Scott, James
  • Second Face
  • Social Capital
  • Social Power
  • Sovereignty
  • Structural Power
  • Structural Suggestion
  • Will to Power
  • Adler, Alfred
  • Authoritarian Personality
  • Bases of Power
  • Deflected Wants
  • Eagly, Alice
  • Expectancy Confirmation, Power and
  • Fiske, Susan
  • Framing
  • French, John R.

    P., Jr.

  • Granovetter, Mark
  • Groupthink
  • Hall, Judith A.
  • Human Dominance Motivation
  • Interdependence Theory
  • Jost, John
  • Laclau, Ernesto, and Mouffe, Chantal
  • Lewin, Kurt, and Power
  • Power, Cognition, and Behavior
  • Power as Control Theory
  • Power Motive
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Rationality
  • Raven, Bertram
  • Social Dominance Theory
  • Status
  • Striving for Superiority
  • System Justification Theory
  • Transactional and Transformational Leadership
  • Agency
  • Agency-Structure Problem
  • Biopower
  • Caste System (India)
  • Clegg, Stewart
  • Decentering (of Subject, of Structure)
  • Deliberation
  • Flyvbjerg, Bent
  • Foucault, Michel
  • Free Will
  • Giddens, Anthony
  • Governmentality
  • Groupthink
  • Habermas, J&#;rgen
  • Habitus
  • Haugaard, Mark
  • Jessop, Bob
  • Luhmann, Niklas
  • Lukes, Steven
  • Mann, Michael
  • Michels, Robert
  • Miliband, Ralph
  • Mills, C.

    Wright

  • Morriss, Peter
  • Nationalism
  • Parsons, Talcott
  • Perceptual Symbols of Power
  • Post-Fordism
  • Propaganda
  • Rationality
  • Realist Accounts of Power
  • Revolution
  • Rhetoric
  • Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  • Scott, James
  • Second Face
  • Small Worlds, Power in
  • Social Breakdown
  • Social Capital
  • Substructure and Superstructure
  • Status
  • Strength of Weak Ties
  • Structural Power
  • Structural Suggestion
  • Structuration
  • Trust
  • Veiled Women
  • Weber, Max
  • Will to Power
  • Animal Groups, Power in
  • Causal Theories of Power
  • Coercion and Power
  • Collective Action Problem
  • Community Power Debate
  • Elite Theories
  • Exchange Theory
  • Feminist International Relations, View of Power
  • Feminist Theories of Power
  • Marxist Accounts of Power
  • Neoliberalism
  • Neorealism
  • Post-Fordism
  • Postmodernist View of Power in International Relations
  • Power as Control Theory
  • Power To and Power Over
  • Queer Theories of Power
  • Realism in International Relations
  • Realist Accounts of Power
  • Relational Power
  • Social Power
  • Striving for Superiority
  • System Justification Theory
  • Third Face
  • Three Faces of Power
  • Animal Groups, Power in
  • Consensual Power, Theories of
  • Constructivist View of Power in International Relations
  • Critical Theory
  • Defensive Realism
  • Deterrence Theory
  • Elite Theories
  • Exercise Fallacy
  • Exploitation
  • False Consciousness
  • Female Leadership Among Mammals
  • Fungibility of Power Resources
  • Hegemonic Power
  • Hegemony
  • Heterosexism, Role of Power in
  • Human Dominance Motivation
  • Ideology
  • Imperial Power
  • Influence
  • Invisible Hand
  • Knowledge and Power
  • Language and Power
  • Legislative Power
  • Manipulation
  • Media, The
  • Military in Government
  • Mobilization of Bias
  • Monopoly Power
  • Networks, Power in
  • Networks and Communities
  • Nonverbal Communication and Power
  • Perceptual Symbols of Power
  • Persuasion
  • Pluralism
  • Police State
  • Political Thinking as Power
  • Power, Cognition, and Behavior
  • Power as Control Theory
  • Power Motive
  • Power To and Power Over
  • Power Transition Theory
  • Power With
  • Prime Ministerial and Presidential
  • Propaganda
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Regime Theory in International Relations
  • Relational Power
  • Relative Autonomy of the State
  • Religious Power
  • Revolutionary Cell Structure
  • Rhetoric
  • Sea Power
  • Second Face
  • Sexism, Role of Power in
  • Social Capital
  • Social Dominance Theory
  • Social Power
  • Striving for Superiority
  • Symbolic Power and Violence
  • Systematic Luck
  • Systemic Power
  • Terrorism
  • Testosterone, Power and
  • Third Face
  • Threats
  • Three Faces of Power
  • Throffers
  • Transactional and Transformational Leadership
  • Will to Power
  • Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton
  • Castells, Manuel
  • Community Power Debate
  • Dahl, Robert A.
  • Domhoff, G.

    William

  • Dowding, Keith
  • Elite Theories
  • Flyvbjerg, Bent
  • Growth Coalitions
  • Hunter, Floyd
  • Lukes, Steven
  • Mobilization of Bias
  • Non Decision Making
  • Pluralism
  • Post-Fordism
  • Power Elite
  • Regime Theory in Urban Politics
  • Sabatier, Paul
  • Systematic Luck
  • Systemic Power
  • Third Face
  • Three Faces of Power
  • World Cities

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