Culture and Personality

Gories that seem to us to reflect the most significant trends of this period. These trends are: a fractionation of group character studies from studies of total personality to investigations of more limited components or aspects of personality; an increasing methodological rigor in child-development investigations; the emergence of social psychiatry as a major subject of specialization for anthropologists; a re-focusing of interests in culture change, from slow acculturation processes to processes of rapid culture change, as in revitalization movements and directed development; the beginning of a crystallization of theory in an area that may loosely be called communication and cognition; and the first signs of…