[[File:Moreno Sociogram 1st Grade.png|thumb|Moreno's sociogram of a 1st grade class.]]In the 1930s [[Jacob Moreno]], a psychologist in the [[Gestalt psychology|Gestalt]] tradition, arrived in the United States. He developed the [[sociogram]] and presented it to the public in April 1933 at a convention of medical scholars. Moreno claimed that "before the advent of sociometry no one knew what the interpersonal structure of a group 'precisely' looked like" (Moreno, 1953). The sociogram was a representation of the social structure of a group of elementary school students. The boys were friends of boys and the girls were friends of girls with the exception of one boy who said he liked a single girl. The feeling was not reciprocated. This network representation of social structure was found so intriguing that it was printed in [[The New York Times]] (April 3, 1933, page 17). The sociogram has found many applications and has grown into the field of [[social network analysis]]. | [[File:Moreno Sociogram 1st Grade.png|thumb|Moreno's sociogram of a 1st grade class.]]In the 1930s [[Jacob Moreno]], a psychologist in the [[Gestalt psychology|Gestalt]] tradition, arrived in the United States. He developed the [[sociogram]] and presented it to the public in April 1933 at a convention of medical scholars. Moreno claimed that "before the advent of sociometry no one knew what the interpersonal structure of a group 'precisely' looked like" (Moreno, 1953). The sociogram was a representation of the social structure of a group of elementary school students. The boys were friends of boys and the girls were friends of girls with the exception of one boy who said he liked a single girl. The feeling was not reciprocated. This network representation of social structure was found so intriguing that it was printed in [[The New York Times]] (April 3, 1933, page 17). The sociogram has found many applications and has grown into the field of [[social network analysis]]. |