This paper adopts a social psychological perspective to the study of social organization analyzed in terms of the skills of organizing. The arguments are intended to be general but discussion is grounded in research on womens' centers in Britain. Drawing on Hosking's work on small groups, leadership, and organization, and Brown's doctoral research on womens' centers, we focus on interlocking cognitive and social orders and the manner of their achievement. "Order" is found to be negotiated more or less successfully, the degree of success achieved depending on skilled performance in four main areas. These are outlined and illustrated. In the case of the womens' organization, a core value was found to be that of "distributed" leadership; they are argued to be successful to the degree that this is achieved.

This article adopts an 'organizing' perspective to examine the relationship between values and action. Drawing on case studies of organizing activity which is undertaken with reference to the core values of the autonomous women's movement, the essentially negotiated nature of this relationship is argued and illustrated. Variation is shown to occur in the terms and arenas of negotiation and attention is drawn to the dimensions of the characteristic 'texture of organizing' in the settings described.

Out of 428 male first year university students, 96 intrinsically oriented (10) and 96 extrinsically oriented (EO) were identified. Each group was divided into four comparable subgroups. Two of the subgroups attempted to solve 40 simple anagrams, one alone and one observed, while the other two worked on 30 difficult anagrams under the same two conditions. Each of the 8 subgroups was further dichotomized into 12 low anxious and 12 high anxious Ss. The experiment involved a 2 (io vs. EO) X 2 (low vs. high anxiety) X 2 (alone vs. observed) X 2 (simple vs. difficult problems) analysis of variance design. The results showed that low anxious EO SS performed better than high anxious so Ss in all conditions, while the low anxious io Ss performed better than the high anxious io Ss only in the alone simple task condition. No significant differences were found with regard to satisfaction.

Reviews the book, Patterns of Belief and Action by S. L. Sutherland (1981). Patterns of Belief and Action is a study of student activism at the University of Alberta in 1970. A stratified random sample of 1200 students was selected and 80% of them actually completed an extensive battery of questionnaires and attitude scales. Included in the sample were students in all years, both undergraduate and graduate, and in most of the University Acuities. Among the wide variety of measures used were items on childhood background, demographic information, various attitude scales, personality inventories and a mental health index. Sutherland offers a convincing rationale for including each of the scales. Both the measures developed specifically for this investigation and those that already existed were psychometrically refined. Factor and item analyses were used to reduce each measure to an internally consistent, brief form. As a result, many of the scales are in the 5-8 item range. Despite their brevity, almost all have good psychometric properties.