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Culture and Personality
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Culture-Personality Relations

  Position
Formula
 
Approaches and leading figures
 
           
 
Psychological reductionism

P — > C

 

Orthodox psychoanalysis
(Freud, Róheim)

social motivation
(McClelland)

 
           
Personality is culture

P = C

 

Configurationalism
(Benedict, Mead, Gorer)

 
           
Anti-culture and personality

C — > P

 

Cultural determinism
(White)

materialism
(Marx)

symbolic interactionism
(Goffman)

 
           
Personality mediation

C— > P — > C2

 

Basic personality
(Kardiner)

modal personality
(DuBois)

cross-cultural correlations
(Whiting and Child)

 
           

Interaction

("two systems")

P < — > C

 

Psychocultural adaptation
(Spiro, Edgerton)

congruence
(Inkeles)

neo-Freudianism
(Erickson, Fromm)

 

 
Source: After LeVine 1982, in Philip K. Bock, Rethinking Psychological Anthropology
(N.Y.: W. H. Freeman, 1988), p. 102.
        
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