Culture and Personality
Culture and Personality
Personality
Definition of personality by
Anthropologist
"Personality is a more or less enduring organization of
forces within the individual associated with a complex
of fairly consistent attitudes, values, and modes of
perception which account, in part, for the Individual's
consistency of behavior" -- Victor Barnouw, Culture and
Personality, 1985, p.
Different personalities:
Genetics(except identical twins)
Varied experiences(schema theory)
Cont..
Configurationalism
The configurational approach posited
that culture adopts the character of the
members' personality structure. Thus,
members of a culture display similar
personalities.
Ruth benedict got convinced for advocating
studies on cross-cultural “distinctive”
features rather than cross-cultural
“comparisons”.
Abram Kardiner
Secondary institutions