The Historical Context of the Minimal Group Paradigm

The minimal group paradigm is very much an experiment in a vacuum. But it also could be seen as kind of like a stripping down to a new bedrock, to a new level upon which to try and understand. And that again, when you bring into the real world, everything else is going to be built on top of that bedrock. It's still an interesting exercise to sort of strip things down to this level.