A. PAUL HARE is a Professor of Sociology at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev in Israel. He received a doctorate from the
University of Chicago. His writing on social interaction in small
groups includes Small Groups, co-edited with Borgatta and Bales,
and the Handbook of Small Group Research. His work on Creativity in
Small Groups and Social Interaction as Drama: Applications from
Conflict Resolution provide the first outlines of the dramaturgical
perspective that are elaborated in the present volume. He is also the
author of many journal articles, the co-editor or editor of the
volumes South Africa, Cooperation in Education, and The Struggle for
Democracy in South Africa, and the founder and editor of the journal
Israel Social Science Research.

HERBERT H. BLUMBERG lectures in psychology at the
University of London Goldsmiths' College. He received a doc-
torate from the Johns Hopkins University and has authored or
co-authored over thirty articles and chapters in social psychology
and social research methods.

Paul Hare and Herbert Blumberg have collaborated in editing three
volumes of case studies on nonviolent action: Nonviolent Direct
Action, Liberation Without Violence, and A Search for Peace and Justice,
and (together with Kent and Davies) the readings on Small Groups
and Social Interaction.

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