Personality and Culture

The theorists of the culture and personality school argue that culture creates personality patterns. One’s culture helps shape people’s emotions, thought behavior, values and norms that fit their surroundings.  Ruth Benedict focuses on the relationship between culture and individual personality and Mead describes the relationship between culture and human nature. Question: Does personality create culture, [...]

Ruth Benedict’s psychological types in the SW (by ben johnson)

Ruth benedict, in her article Psychological types in the Cultures of the southwest, explains a disunion she notices between the ritualistic practices of the pueblo peoples and all the other tribes in the region. This she attempts to outline with the framework of the famous psychologist Friedrich Nietzsche. In his work he develops an existing [...]

Culture and Personality?

What was the impact of the “Culture and Personality” tradition?  Is it still present?  Is it overly psychological? -Ruth Benedict, Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest (1930) -Margaret Mead, Introduction to Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)