Carolina QuotesFor any type of social management, It is of great practical importance that levels of quasi-stationary equilibria can be changed in either of two ways: by adding forces in the desired direction, or by diminishing opposing forces.
Kurt Zadek Lewin Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 40.
- work
- Quasi-Stationary Social Equilibria and the Problem of Permanent Change, 1947
- year
- 1947
- locator
- p. 40
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