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Bring out the relationship between culture and personality. Discuss with examples the differences in personalities in the same culture.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Systems of Kinship

Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry A. Murray (Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture, 1948) put the problem in one line: every person is in certain respects like all others, like some others and like no other. Culture explains the first two likenesses. The third, and much of the second, arises from variation within a single culture.

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