Organized groups are always faced with the problem of how best to harness human energies to their purposes. They must concern themselves with mechanisms which insure that people are sufficiently motivated to be loyal to them even in the face of competing appeals from other sources within the wider social structure.
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Lewis A. Coser (1967) studied this question.
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