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Character structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Among the earliest factors that determine an individual's eventual character structure are his or her genetic characteristics, the conditions under which gestation occurred, and early childhood nurture and education. The individual character can similarly be described in structural regard as a typical combination of character traits and character orientations like the social character. Fromm notes that character structures develop in each individual to enable him or her to interact successfully within a given society may be very counter-productive when used in a different society. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Character_structure   (395 words)

CHARACTER AND THE SOCIAL PROCESS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Character in the dynamic sense of analytic psychology is the specific form in which human energy is shaped by the dynamic adaptation of human needs to the particular mode of existence of a given society. The social function of education is to qualify the individual to function in the role he is to play later on in society; that is, to mould his character in such a way that it approximates the social character, that his desires coincide with the necessities of his social role. Having stated that the social character is shaped by the mode of existence of a given society, I want to remind the reader of what has been said in the first chapter on the problem of dynamic adaptation. www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/fromm.htm   (5043 words)

Toward a Science of Social Character   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Social character is a difficult concept, particularly because it crosses academic boundaries of psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics. The bureaucratic social character struggled with issues of independence, starting with separation from mothers who were stuck in the home and might try to live through their children. In contrast to the bureaucratic social character's overdependence on authority, the interactive social character may struggle with a lack of confident parenting, from childhood through adolescence and a lack of leadership thereafter. www.maccoby.com /Articles/ScienceSocialCharacter.html   (2872 words)

Character Preface Character is a middle ground where the individual must reject a "cheap Nietzschean" solution and instead, make the heroic effort to accept the self-discipline and tragedy of the individual position of character. Character for the positivist social scientist was social character, a set of behavioral traits that could be attributed to groups or classes of research subjects. Character is an ingathering of resources so that we may respond to a public landscape that we created but no longer recognize as "ours." As Georg Simmel pointed out, the individual is not and never will be synonymous nor at ease with the culture he creates. www.chatpress.com /char_96.html   (3892 words)

George Herbert Mead: The Social Character of Instinct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The social object is then constructed out of this emotional material which accompanies the inhibited social impulses in their earlier phases. The object self of the protective instinct is the objectified group of social indications of the action of the child or the helpless member of the family or larger group, placed for the moment at least beyond our fostering care and surcharged with the tender emotion. Their importance as indications of socially important conduct is vital and has led to their selection and preservation and final development into the language of signs and articulate speech. spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Mead/Unpublished/Meadu04.html   (2058 words)

The "Carnival Character" of the Present Age While his understanding of "social character" was nascent in his analysis of the lure of fascism as an authoritarian/destructive response to anxiety and powerlessness, he expanded this understanding to include receptive, exploitative, hoarding and marketing manifestations. While psychoanalytic discourses have moved from the classical pathologies of repression to the contemporary pathologies of the self eg."narcissistic character disorders", false self and the borderline personality, such concepts must be understood as manifestations of the new forms consumer based selfhood that in the face of capitalist crises are increasing indifferent to the political. When the character structure of the typical individual more or less approximates the social character, s/he is thus likely to do that which is necessary and desirable as defined by the culture and in so doing, s/he will find personal gratifications and satisfactions. www.angelfire.com /or/sociologyshop/langfr1.html   (3876 words)

Sports Participation as a Builder of Character? - The World and I Magazine Regardless of the meaning imputed to the word "character," it is a socially constructed concept that is amenable to a variety of interpretations. The structure of social relations in organized sports programs not only introduces the discipline of the larger society to participants, but it also nurtures the types of social characteristics, self-images, and class identifications that are important factors for comfortably fitting into adult roles. N effect, then, the social relationships typically found in organized sports--the relationships between coaches and athletes, athletes and athletes, and athletes and their sports tasks--replicate the hierarchical division of labor and the social values through a correspondence between their own internal social relationships and those of the larger society. www.worldandi.com /public/1988/october/mt8.cfm   (3924 words)

Social Epistemology Social epistemology is theoretically significant because of the central role of society in the knowledge-forming process. The social character of Longino's approach is reflected in her insistence that objectivity is a characteristic of a community's scientific practice rather than a characteristic of an individual scientist, for objectivity refers to the avoidance of individual subjectivity or bias. Thinking of the relationship between the rational and the social as one of opposition, it is not surprising to find Larry Laudan proposing an "arationality principle": "[T]he sociology of knowledge may step in to explain beliefs if and only if those beliefs cannot be explained in terms of their rational merits" (Laudan 1977: 202). plato.stanford.edu /entries/epistemology-social   (6997 words)

The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge Study of the social dimensions of scientific knowledge encompasses the effects of scientific research on human life and social relations, the effects of social relations and values on scientific research, and the social aspects of inquiry itself. The social character of science is understood as a matter of the aggregation of individuals, not their interactions, and public knowledge as simply the additive outcome of many individuals making sound epistemic judgments. She understands the social factors as coherence conditions operating in tandem with logical constraints to determine the relative plausibility of beliefs in the network. plato.stanford.edu /entries/scientific-knowledge-social   (5029 words)

The Sport Journal: Volume7, Number2,Spring 2004:What Type of Character Do Athletes Possess? An Empirical Examination of ... From the character development literature, newspapers, media, and personal communications with coaches, parents, and the general populace we discovered that many individuals appear to define character from a social perspective rather than a moral perspective. Thus, many define character in terms of social values such as teamwork, loyalty, self-sacrifice, work ethic, and perseverance which may be considered as "social character'' as opposed to "moral character'' which has been denoted by moral values such as honesty, fairness, and responsibility (see for example, Arnold, 1999; Shields and Bredemeier, 1995). The reason why team sport athletes scored significantly higher than non athletes on the social character index may be as a result of the emphasis that coaches, parents, and general society place on values such as teamwork, loyalty, self-sacrifice, perseverance, and work ethic in team sports. www.thesportjournal.org /2004Journal/Vol7-No2/RuddStoll.asp   (3107 words)

Social Skills - Character Education Partnership This study reported on a two-phase evaluation study about the social behavior and academic functioning of students participating in classrooms where part or all of the Responsive Classroom approach was being utilized. Students' social behavior and reaction to the Responsive Classroom approach was measured with the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS), The Responsive Classroom Usage Checklist or RC Checklist, and the Responsive Classroom Questionnaires or RC Questionnaires. The SSRS is a multi-source, multi-dimensional instrument of student social and academic functioning where parents, teachers and students rate student behavior. www.character.org /site/c.gwKUJhNYJrF/b.995195/k.9B8D/Social_Skills.htm   (1610 words)

Frankfurt School: Character and Social Process. Erich Fromm 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Thus, for instance, if he has a passionate drive to save and an abhorrence of spending money for any luxury, he will be greatly helped by this drive – supposing he is a small shopkeeper who needs to save and to be thrifty if he wants to survive. Even inasmuch as these old virtues were still an asset – as with the small shopkeeper – the range of possibilities for such business was so narrowed down that only a minority of the sons of the old middle class could “use” their character traits successfully in their economic pursuits. The answer is not only that the parents – aside from certain individual variations – apply the educational patterns of the society they live in, but also that in their own personalities they represent the social character of their society or class. www.marxists.org /archive/fromm/works/1942/character.htm   (5042 words)

Karl Marx, The Fetishism of Commodities The two-fold social character of the labour of the individual appears to him, when rejected in his brain, only under those forms which are impressed upon that labour in everyday practice by the exchange of products. The characters that stamp products as commodities, and whose establishment is a necessary preliminary to the circulation of commodities, have already acquired the stability of natural, self-understood forms of social life, before man seeks to decipher, not their historical character, for in his eyes they are immutable, but their meaning. The social relations of the individual producers, with regard both to their labour and to its products, are in this case perfectly simple and intelligible, and that with regard not only to production but also to distribution. www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MODERN/FETISH.HTM   (2952 words)

Learning Organization The dominant "social character," which is the dominant personality type most adaptive to a particular society, can be described. Leaders bring out the best in each social character and each individual personality type, and develop their strengths, while being aware of and discouraging the negative potentials. They have the social character knowledge-service organizations need today, but they must be properly managed, lead and developed. www.hq.usace.army.mil /cepa/learning/7.htm   (442 words)

Quest - Character Proposal Guidelines Characters of these ranks would have vast social influence, and realistically they should have powers far beyond the reach of a mere 10 to 30 points. Basically, any characters whose background means that the character would have a knowledge of the gods, the titans, the creation, or anything that's considered mysterious and undefined by mortals. An "immortal" (that is, a character who doesn't age) character is acceptable, provided that your race has no more cosmological knowledge than a mortal, has no special abilities that can't be represented within the scope of the rules, and has no other social advantages derived from your background. www.quest.org /cg/characterguidelines.shtml   (4327 words)

The Social Character of Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)  We need to define “social” in such a way that the claim that the claim that science is social in character does not imply either of these consequences. Gilbert, Margaret.  2003.  The Structure of the Social Atom:  Joint Commitment as the Foundation of Human Social Behavior.  In F. Schmitt, ed.  Socializing Metaphysics. Machamer, Peter, and Lisa Osbeck.  2004.  The Social in the Epistemic.  In P. Machamer and G. Wolters, eds. www.iit.edu /~schmaus/colloquium/schmaus.html   (423 words)

National Character - Learning to Live in One World - Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture (Library of ... This schedule shows the topics she was to address during her first visit: Balinese culture; character structure and international cooperation; and wartime food problems. Mead sought to give an institutional basis to the research she and like-minded social scientists were doing. National character studies in the war and postwar periods were subsequently criticized by scholars for their homogeneity and over-generalization. www.loc.gov /exhibits/mead/oneworld-char.html   (1126 words)

Social and Character Development Research Program Awards The Social and Character Development (SACD) Research Program was created in response to the need for systematic evaluations of promising current school-based programs and to provide rigorous evidence of their efficacy. A core set of common outcome measures is utilized to assess students' social and emotional competence, positive behavior, problem behavior, and academic achievement; school climate; and instructional practices implemented in intervention and control-group schools. In their complementary study, the researchers are examining how students' personal characteristics (such as risk status), social roles (such as bully or victim), and peer affiliations (either prosocial or antisocial) interact with the broader classroom and school social context. www.ed.gov /about/offices/list/ies/social.html?exp=3   (1500 words)

Laboratory for the Study of Social Anxiety, Character Strengths, and Related Phenomena The Laboratory for the Study of Social Anxiety, Character Strengths, and Related Phenomena is committed to conducting basic research to better understand the nature of social anxiety and character strengths (e.g., curiosity, gratitude) and applying this knowledge to reduce functional impairment and enhance personal and social well-being. The other profound pleasure of science is the social process of developing, exploring, and refining ideas during open and supportive sessions of intellectual racquetball. I am looking for students who are interested in social anxiety and other anxiety conditions, positive emotions and traits, interpersonal processes and relationships, self-regulation, and/or well-being. mason.gmu.edu /~tkashdan/overview.html   (494 words)

Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Often used as a social studies resource guide, this book is essential to any curriculum integration work on Character Education/Social and Emotional Learning. Character Education Resource Guide from the Character Education Partnership. Lessons and ideas on integration, infusion of character education and social emotional learning throughout the curriculum and school culture. www.ridoe.net /child_family/charactered/resources.htm   (659 words)

A "Character Based" Social Norms Campaign and It's Effect on College Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Key Points: Utilizing social norm advertising and “messaging” has been demonstrated as having a positive effect on behavior and perception of behavior. Our campaign, created by two students, used the social norm model applied to tobacco use prevention and incorporated cable television, radio and newspaper advertising. Educational Experience: The audience will gain a clear understanding of the creation and implementation of this social norms campaign through the viewing of campaign material (print, video, etc.), a clear description and outline from the presenters, and an opportunity for discussion among the presenters and audience. ncth.confex.com /ncth/2003/techprogram/paper_7904.htm   (336 words)

Pride & Prejudice Analysis, Overview, Insights, Meaning, Lessons, Interpretation, Study, Literary ... Regardless of the author’s conscious intention, what is portrayed is true in character if not in fact to the fundamental realities of human nature, the life of society and life as a universal plane. Life has a character which presents itself as a series of principles that normally are unknown to us. Essentially an analysis of how the negativities and difficulties in the movement of events and the limitations of the characters of the story enable the individuals and social entities to evolve. www.gurusoftware.com /GuruNet/Personal/PridePrejudiceProject/PPMain.htm   (1489 words)

Commentary Magazine - Culture and Social Character, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Culture and Social Character, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal ...Edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal, Culture and Social Character is the third in a series of books -which the Free Press publishes under the general heading of "continuities in social research"-reappraising contemporary landmarks in sociology... ...The whole tone and tempo of Culture and Social Character's massive foray is revivified by the essay... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V33I3P91-1.htm   (1938 words)

CSEE > What is SEE? > Social Emotional/Character Education Research Data Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) One of CSEE's five strategies to actualize our mission and vision that all children deserve to have the skills and knowledge necessary for them to lead healthy, caring, responsible, and productive lives, is translating research into educational materials and resources. That is the purpose of this database, to collect in one place all of the data that shows the positive and important effects of social and emotional/character education for children. This database contains studies that directly evaluate SEL programs, studies that show the effects of SEL on children, and studies that metanalytically evaluate previous research done in the area of SEL. www.csee.net /SEE/database.aspx   (109 words)

Amazon.com: Social character in a Mexican village;: A sociopsychoanalytic study: Books: Erich Fromm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Amazon.com: Social character in a Mexican village;: A sociopsychoanalytic study: Books: Erich Fromm I own the rights to this title and would like to make it available again through Amazon. Social character in a Mexican village;: A sociopsychoanalytic study (Unknown Binding) www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0138156700?v=glance   (288 words)

Amazon.ca: Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Amazon.ca: Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing: Books Look for books like Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing by subject: Top of Page : Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0874214297   (249 words)

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