This document contains nine essays on the sociology and social psychology of team dynamics, including methodological and epistemological issues involved in such study. Essay titles are: (1) Conflict and Achievement in Top Athletic Teams--Sociometric Structures of Racing Eight Oar Crews; (2) Top Performance Despite Internal Conflict--An Antithesis to a Hypothesis Widely Held in Sociological Functioning; (3) Subjective Assessments of Achievement and Sociometric Choices in World Champion Eight Crews; (4) Surrender of Defensive and Value Layers in the Case of Top-Class Oarsmen Under Socio-Dramatic Simulated Stress; (5) "Authoritarian" or "Democratic" Style of Coaching?; (6) Total or Partial Engagement?--Changes Regarding the Social and the Personal Ties with the Sport Club; (7) Trees, Tournaments, and Sociometric Graphs--Applicability of Mathematical Theory of Graphs in Sport Sociology; (8) Epistemological Problems and the Personality and Social Systems in Social Psychology of Sport; and (9) Against the New Socio-Philosophical Criticism of Athletics and Achievement. (MJB)