Changes in Status and Age Identification

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ID4872393
AuthorsZena Smith Blau (corresponding author)
Year1956
Volume21
Issue2
Pages198
Publication date1956-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2088522
OpenAlexW2317501603
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited2

because of unaltered personality formation in Changes of personality characteristics, on the other hand, can be traced to personality formation in childhood. Specifically, the lowered psychological integration found by Hallowell may relate to the increasing unresponsiveness of children to parents and to their tendency to respond less frequently by either taking things as they come or influencing the parent despite conflict. The immediate causes of change in the personality functioning of children are not analyzed here. But one might speculate that they involve an interplay between personality formation in childhood and adulthood, set in motion by the altered conditions of life accompanying acculturation. For example, in the present study it was suggested that children became less responsive. Would this make them less responsive as parents? If so, the continued ineffectiveness found for children would have a partial explanation in adult personality changes. It was also suggested that culture patterns involving subsistence, kinship, and religion differentiated families with regard to traditional parent-child relationships. These patterns involve major adult roles in any culture. If they were seriously altered over one to three generations, as was the case with most of the Ojibwa studied, would this affect the organization of adult personality? An effect like the obscuring of the self image could well be expressed in lesser responsiveness or greater inconsistency with their children. Finally, to the extent that culture patterns are necessary conditions for the persistence of child-parent interaction patterns, then it may be meaningful to state that culture determines personality. Some evidence for this proposition is presented above for one case. Studies of other cultures undergoing change will reveal whether these findings are local and unique or have wider application. 11If introverted is defined as ineffective, then this conclusion must be reversed. But the author would argue that ineffectiveness alone is an inadequate definition of the historic personality type

Biology · Identification (biology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology

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