Personality in nature, society, and culture
By: Edited by Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry A. Murray, with the collaboration of David M. Schneider.
Contributors: Kluckhorn, Clyde, 1905-; Murray, Henry Alexander, 1893-
Edition: 2nd edition revised and enlarged.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 701
Subjects: Personality
Description: Outline of a conception of personality / Henry A. Murray, Clyde Kluckhohn -- Personality formation: the determinants / Clyde Kluckhohn, Henry A. Murray -- The genetic factor in autonomic nervous-system function / Hudson Jost, Lester W. Sontag -- The genetic theory of schizophrenia / Franz J. Kallmann -- Physical and physiological correlates of personality structure / R. Nevitt Sanford -- Psychosomatic studies of some aspects of maternal behavior / David M. Levy -- Anthropological data on the problem of instinct / Margaret Mead -- Cultural control and physiological autonomy / Lawrence K. Frank -- Social technique, social status, and social change in illness / Jurgen Ruesch --The frustration complex in Kwoma society / John W. M. Whiting -- Breastfeeding and character formation / Frieda Goldman-Eisler -- Growth and crises of the "healthy personality" / Erik Homburger Erikson -- Biography and biology / Alfred M. Tozzer -- The concept of national character / Geoffrey Gorer --^

Aggression in Saulteaux society / A. Irving Hallowell -- The general problem of Hopi adjustment / Dorothy Eggan -- Doll play of Pilagá Indian children / Jules and Zunia Henry -- Social class and color differences in child-rearing / Allison Davis, Robert J. Havighurst -- Symbolic sibling rivalry in a Guatemalan Indian village / Benjamin D. Paul -- Are basic needs ultimate? / Dorothy Lee -- Dominant and variant value orientations / Florence Rockwood Kluckhohn -- Age and sex in the social structure of the United States / Talcott Parsons -- Bureaucratic structure and personality / Robert K. Merton -- Social dynamics of physical disability in army basic training / David M. Schneider -- The relation of birth to behavior / Ira S. Wile, Rose Davis -- Educative influence of personality factors in the environment / Franz Alexander -- Personality under social catastrophe: ninety life-histories of the Nazi revolution / G.W. Allport, J.S. Bruner, E.M. Jandorf --^

An instance of the social origin of conflict resulting in psychoses / J. McV. Hunt -- The ghost of Henry James: a study in thematic apperception / Saul Rosenzweig -- Some psychosomatic aspects of childhood / Lester W. Sontag -- Infant reactions to restraint: problems in the fate of infantile aggression / Phyllis Greenacre -- Individual and social origins of neurosis / Erich Fromm -- Continuities and discontinuities in cultural conditioning / Ruth Benedict -- The life history in community studies / John Dollard -- Some problems of personality development among Negro children / Bingham Dai -- American status systems and the socialization of the child / Allison Davis -- Some sociological observations on culture and personality studies / Alex Inkeles -- The channeling of Negro aggression by the cultural process / Hortense Powdermaker -- Illness and the role of the physician: a sociological perspective / Talcott Parsons -- Trends in affectlessness / Nathan Leites --^

The psychology of the Soviet middle elite: two case histories / Raymond A. Bauer -- Social change and cultural surrogates / Margaret Mead -- Administrative contributions to democratic character formation at the adolescent level / Margaret Mead -- The scientific approach to case work: with special emphasis on psychoanalysis / Robert Waelder -- The functions of alcohol in primitive societies: a cross-cultural study / Donald Horton -- A critique of cultural and statistical concepts of abnormality / Henry J. Wegrocki.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.