Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

culture and personality  

Definition

  • “Culture and personality” has been perhaps the most mythologized and misunderstood of American anthropology's interdisciplinary endeavors. Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, the two anthropologists most closely associated with “cultural and personality,” have often been understood to equate culture with personality. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Culture and Personality]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/culture_and_personality

Download this concept: