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082			_a303.34 See
100			_aSeeman, Melvin
245		0	_aSocial status and leadership: The case of the school executive
260			_aColumbus
260			_bOhio State University
260			_c1960
300			_a156p.
520			_aEarly in their discussion of leadership, the authors of The Ameri- can Soldier commented on the urgent need for "some tested hypothe- ses to replace the copybook maxims that now fill most manuals on leadership" (74, page 363).' The present volume, focusing on the schools as an arena for leadership, is intended as one contribution to a growing literature of the kind they envisioned. I have tried to apply a careful, empirical attitude to operating organizations and to test, with these ongoing institutions, a relatively systematic set of propositions about leadership in America. Such a procedure has obvious limitations in regard to control of relevant variables, limita- tions which this study does not escape.
650			_aSociology
942			_cB _2ddc