Social Character in a Mexican VillageTransaction Publishers - 303 páginas After the completion of the revolution in 1920, Mexico quickly became an increasingly industrialized country. The vast changes that occurred in the first fifty years after the revolution inspired Erich Fromm and Michael Maccoby to find out how the Mexican people were adapting. The result, Social Character in a Mexican Village, provides a new approach to the analysis of social phenomena. The authors applied Fromm's theories of psychoanalysis to the study of groups. They devised an ingenious method of questionnaires, which, combined with direct observation, clearly revealed the psychic forces that motivated the peasant population. In his new introduction, Michael Maccoby thoroughly explains the basis of the study, how it originated, and how it was carried out. He goes on to delineate the results and determine their impact on the present day. Social Character in a Mexican Village throws new light on one of the world's most pressing problems, the impact of the industrialized world on the traditional character of the peasant. This ground-breaking work will be invaluable to the work of sociologists, anthropologists, and psychoanalysts. |
Contenido
THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF THE PEASANT | 1 |
THE THEORY OF CHARACTER | 4 |
A MEXICAN PEASANT VILLAGE | 31 |
A SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL | 41 |
THE CHARACTER OF THE VILLAGERS | 83 |
CHARACTER SOCIOECONOMIC | 126 |
The Character of Women and Socioeconomic Variables | 138 |
SEX AND CHARACTER | 145 |
ALCOHOLISM | 161 |
THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER | 179 |
CONCLUSIONS | 226 |
THE INTERPRETATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE | 239 |
SCORING AGREEMENT AND | 271 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 292 |
156 | 299 |
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Social Character in a Mexican Village: A Sociopsychoanalytic Study Erich Fromm Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
Social Character in a Mexican Village: A Sociopsychoanalytic Study Erich Fromm,Michael Maccoby Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
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active adaptation adolescents adult agreement alcoholics answer attitudes authoritarian become behavior traits biophilia boys cane Chapter character orientations character structure character traits child CONASUPO concept conditional love considered contrast cooperative correlation cultural curanderos dependent described destructive dominant drinking economic ejidatarios ejido entrepreneurs example excessive drinkers exploitative express fact factor analysis father fear feel Freud's Fromm Furthermore girls hacienda hoarding orientation husband ideal important independent individual indulgent intensely fixated interpretative questionnaire land libido live Maccoby machismo male masochism masochistic method Mexico Mexico City mode of assimilation mode of relation moderate Morelos mother fixation narcissism Nazism necrophilia nonejidatarios parents passive patriarchal peasant peons percent level percentage person possible precoded productive productive-hoarding projects psychoanalytic punishment question receptive relatedness responses Rorschach sadistic scoring significant social character society socioeconomic submissive syndrome Table tendencies tion Tzintzuntzan unproductive variables woman women Yurok
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Página 70 - THE RECEPTIVE ORIENTATION In the receptive orientation a person feels "the source of all good" to be outside, and he believes that the only way to get what he wants — be it something material, be it affection, love, knowledge, pleasure — is to receive it from that outside source. In this orientation the problem of love is almost exclusively that of "being loved
Página 75 - Thus, by being born we have made the step from an absolutely self-sufficient narcissism to the perception of a changing external world and the beginnings of the discovery of objects. And with this is associated the fact that we cannot endure the new state of things for long, that we periodically revert from it, in our sleep, to our former condition of absence of stimulation and avoidance of objects.
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Página xix - Mental health is characterized by the ability to love and to create, by the emergence from incestuous ties to clan and soil, by a sense of identity based on one's experience of self as the subject and agent of one's powers, by the grasp of reality inside and outside of ourselves, that is, by the development of objectivity and reason.
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