摘要: We all belong to countless groups: family groups, work play political groups. The major events of our lives almost invariably occur us as members births, deaths, celebrations, bereavements, achievments, and entertainments in group contexts. possibility that groups are inherently good (Anderson, 1978) or bad (Buys, has been discussed ad infinitum. As the foregoing epigrams suggest, it is probably accurate adapt Aristophanes’ dictum we can’t live with them, without them.