Die Grundlagen der Soziometrie �C fr��her und heute

Sociometry as a method of social reseach is used to analyze interpersonal relations in small groups (cold sociometry) and as a base to rearrange group composition according the informal relationships (hot sociometry). These two ideas are promoted by the psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno (Who shall survive? 1934). A thorough look at the history of social research instruments shows, that he doesn??t invent the analyzing sociometric method as the first author. But his new and creative idea was the second idea: the rearrangement of group composition according to sociometric choices. He proposed this method not only as a therapeutic and organizational tool, but as a political sociometric movement, the so called ??hot?? sociometry. The cold sociometry is actually as ??network analysis?? expanding and of growing interest in many disciplines??the hot sociometry remains a organizational, therapeutic idea, which failed as political idea.