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Social Character in a Mexican Village : a Sociopsychoanalytic Study.
The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm not only analyzed society and societal processes. Together with Michael Maccoby he did a study of Mexican peasants to empirically illustrate how historical, economic and social requirements determine behavior. Social Character in a Mexican Village does much mor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Contents; 1. The Social Character of the Peasant and Problems of Methodology; The Peasant; The Dynamic Concept of Character; The Social Character; The Method; 2. A Mexican Peasant Village; The Past and the Present; The Hacienda; The Inner Life of the Villagers; 3. A Socioeconomic and Cultural Picture of the Village; Age, Place of Birth, and Family Groupings; Literacy and Schooling; Medical Care; Occupation; Land Tenure; Housing; Other Capital Possessions; Consumer Goods; The Socioeconomic Scale; Class and Participation in Village Affairs.
- Participation in Religious and Cultural Activities4. The Theory of Character Orientations; Types of Character: The Nonproductive Orientations; The Productive Orientation; Orientations in the Process of Socialization; Incestuous Ties; Blends of Various Orientations; Sociopolitical Orientations; 5. The Character of the Villagers; Variables of Scoring Character; The Distribution of Character Traits; The Factor Analysis; The Meaning of Factor Scores and Factor Loadings; The Six Factors; Factor I-Adulthood vs. Adolescence; Factor II-Productiveness vs. Unproductiveness.
- Factor III-Exploitativeness vs. Non-exploitativenessFactor IV-Hoarding vs. Receptive Modes of Assimilation; Factor V-Sex Role (Masculinity vs. Feminity); Factor VI-Mother-Centered vs. Father-Centered Orientations; Conclusion: Social Character; 6. Character, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Variables; Character and the Mode of Production; The Nonejidatario; Class and Character; The Character of Women and Socioeconomic Variables; Character and Education; Character and Religions and Cultural Activities; Conclusion; 7. Sex and Character; Productive and Unproductive Men and Women.
- The Relationship Between Men and WomenThe Challenge to Patriarchy; 8. Alcoholism; Cultural Vulnerability; Receptive Character; Machismo, Narcissism and Sadism; The Mother Fixation; The Abstainers; Psychosocial Vulnerability: The Undermined Patriarchy; Economic Vulnerability; 9. The Formation of Character in Childhood; Infancy; Early Childhood; Middle Childhood to Adolescence; The Villager at the End of Childhood; Comparison of Character of Children and Adults; Character Factors in Childhood; Correlations of Parental and Child Characters; Correlations of Parental and Adult Offspring Characters.
- 10. Possibilities for Change: Character and CooperationCooperation in the Village; Anticooperative Attitudes; Possibilities for Cooperation; The Village Boys' Club; 11. Conclusions; The Method; The Theory of Social Character; Outlook; Appendix A: The Interpretative Questionnaire and Examples of Scoring; Appendix B: Scoring Agreement and the Use of the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests; Bibliography; Index; Copyright Page.