1st Edition

Social Character in a Mexican Village

Edited By Michael Maccoby Copyright 1996
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

303 Pages
by Routledge

After the completion of the revolution in 1920, Mexico quickly became an increasingly industrialized country. The vast changes that occurred in the first fifty years after the revolution inspired Erich Fromm and Michael Maccoby to find out how the Mexican people were adapting. The result, Social Character in a Mexican Village, provides a new approach to the analysis of social phenomena.The authors... Read more
1: The Social Character of the Peasant and Problems of Methodology; 2: A Mexican Peasant Village; 3: A Socioeconomic and Cultural Picture of the Village; 4: The Theory of Character Orientations; 5: The Character of the Villagers; 6: Character, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Variables; 7: Sex and Character; 8: Alcoholism; 9: The Formation of Character in Childhood; 10: Possibilities for Change; 11: Conclusions

Biography

Michael Maccoby