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N EARLY twenty years ago, I wrote a paper for presentation at a section of the annual meeting of this Society in which I sought to demonstrate the feasibility and utility of analyzing marital problems in terms of dynamic situational fields composed of interacting roles.1 Of little moment in the general progress of social psychology, the paper is nevertheless pregnant with meaning for me. In the first place, it represented the results of my own efforts to integrate such of their ideas as I had assimilated from G. H. Mead, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud, Kurt Koffka, R. E. Parks, E. W. Burgess, H. D. Lasswell, and many others whose thinking and orientation are symbolized by these names,2 into a theoretical frame work which I could apply to the very concrete and real problems of analysis and understanding of human behavior in the groups I was studying at that time. In the second place, the paper symbolized in my own experience the shift which characterized
Leonard S. Cottrell (Fri,) studied this question.