Culture, Behavior, and Personality: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation

This new edition of Culture, Behavior, and Personality is organized into five parts. Part I defines the field of inquiry, Part II presents a critical review of existing theories and methods, Part III expounds LeVine's unique Darwinian model of culture and personality, Part IV deals with the strategies and methods with which to study individual dispositions within the sociocultural matrix, Part V concludes with two essays on cultural and personality research including new advances and avenues of research that have appeared within the last seven years. In this revised and updated edition of his highly acclaimed work, LeVine redevelops the thematic threads woven through the book to underline their essential unity. Reconsidering the role of ethnography in current research, LeVine constructs an ethnographic approach to the self, using the methods of social anthropology to obtain empirical data of psychological as well as social significance. The second edition of Culture, Behavior, and Personality presents a cross-fertilization of conventional anthropological theory with sociological and psychological perspectives. As an investigation of the complex relationships between the individual and the society which surrounds him, LeVine provides professionals and students in anthropology, psychology, social psychology, and sociology with an important guide to the contemporary frontiers in the field of culture and personality.