CLINICAL SOCIOMETRY, ITS APPLICATION TO COLLEGE RESIDENCE HALLS

Abstract

J. L. Moreno, the founder of sociometry, first expressed the basic idea during World War I.' Though his concept was somewhat utopian in that he saw it as the answer to the world's problems, a worldwide political sociometry being his idea of the major experiment-the culmination, still many significant contributions have been made through its use to an understand- ing of social interaction.2 Designed to give graphic presentation to the measurement of interpersonal relations, the sociogram is conventionally based on certain responses of a confidential nature to questions calling for statements of various types of attraction and repulsion among people