With the passage of time tribal structures are coming to an end and are being replaced with a more cohesive and holistic society, as community building and group cohesiveness form the new pillars of Punjabi society.
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In citing his reasons for studying ingratiation, Jones reasoned that ingratiation was an important phenomenon to study because it elucidated some of the central mysteries of social interaction and was also the stepping stone towards understanding other common social phenomena such as group cohesiveness.
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Morale, despite strict disciplinarian attitudes, had cracked in all armies during the war, but best performing troops were found to be those where emphasis on discipline had been replaced with display of personal initiative and group cohesiveness such as that found in the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
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He felt manipulated, by rules that clearly had kept him and the others from seeing illuminating evidence and witnesses, by a requirement for unanimity that he began to question when it forced some jurors to barter pieces of their convictions for group cohesiveness, by police work that even the most pro-police members of the panel deemed unacceptably sloppy.
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He further noted the importance of studying ingratiation where he wrote : " A more valid reason for studying ingratiation is that light might be shed on other common social phenomena such as the antecedents of group cohesiveness, the conditions of social influence and conformity, and the significance of social reinforcement in sequences of social interaction . " He was also an opponent of behaviorism.
