Michael Maccoby
-Social Character in a Mexican Village is notable both for
methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine
intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with
detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into
peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies.- --George
M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley -Fromm and Maccoby
have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented
the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental
concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a
seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way
to a more human type of development.- --Richard J. Barnet,
Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies
"Social Character in a Mexican Village is notable both for
methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine
intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with
detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into
peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies." --George
M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley "Fromm and Maccoby
have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented
the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental
concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a
seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way
to a more human type of development." --Richard J. Barnet,
Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies
""Social Character in a Mexican Village" is notable both for
methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine
intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with
detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into
peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies." --George
M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley "Fromm and Maccoby
have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented
the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental
concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a
seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way
to a more human type of development." --Richard J. Barnet,
Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies
""Social Character in a Mexican Village" is notable both for
methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine
intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with
detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into
peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies."--George M.
Foster, University of California, Berkeley"Fromm and Maccoby have
written a study of crucial importance. They have documented the
destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental concept.
They have presented this evidence in the framework of a seminal
theory of social character. And they have pointed the way to a more
human type of development."--Richard J. Barnet, Co-Director,
Institute for Policy Studies
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