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How does culture influence personality? Can personality influence culture? How?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Systems of Kinship

Culture, in Edward B. Tylor's classic definition (Primitive Culture, 1871), is the complex whole of knowledge, belief, art, morals, law and custom acquired by people as members of society. Personality is the individual's enduring pattern of thought, feeling and action. The relationship runs both ways: culture moulds the typical personality of a society, while exceptional…

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  • How culture shapes personality
  • How personality shapes culture
  • Limits of both claims
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