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adopt the majority's point of view [1 record]

Record 1 1986-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
OBS

Adopt: to take up or accept ... (one no longer adopts an idea unless it is driven in with hammers of statistics and columns of figures ...).

OBS

point of view: a particular reasoned mental attitude toward or opinion about something.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
CONT

[...] comme cette volonté générale [...] est assez rare, il faut bien se rabattre sur la volonté de la majorité [...] il ne restera à la minorité qu'à se rallier en faisant son auto-critique [...]

CONT

Dans le cas d'une décision majoritaire, le groupe se rallie à l'opinion de la majorité.

OBS

Se rabattre sur [...]: en venir, après une déception, à accepter, à adopter faute de mieux.

Spanish

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