Social Character in a Mexican Village.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- FOREWORD -- 1 THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF THE PEASANT AND PROBLEMS OF METHODOLOGY -- The Peasant -- The Dynamic Concept of Character -- The Social Character -- The Method -- 2 A MEXICAN PEASANT VILLAGE -- The Past and the Present -- The Hacienda -- The Inner Life of the Villagers -- 3 A SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PICTURE OF THE VILLAGE -- Age, Place of Birth, and Family Groupings -- Literacy and Schooling -- Medical Care -- Occupation -- Land Tenure -- Housing -- Other Capital Possessions -- Consumer Goods -- The Socioeconomic Scale -- Class and Participation in Village Affairs -- Participation in Religious and Cultural Activities -- 4 THE THEORY OF CHARACTER ORIENTATIONS -- Types of Character: The Nonproductive Orientations -- The Productive Orientation -- Orientations in the Process of Socialization -- Incestuous Ties -- Blends of Various Orientations -- Sociopolitical Orientations -- 5 THE CHARACTER OF THE VILLAGERS -- Variables of Scoring Character -- The Distribution of Character Traits -- The Factor Analysis -- The Meaning of Factor Scores and Factor Loadings -- The Six Factors -- Factor I-Adulthood vs. Adolescence -- Factor II-Productiveness vs. Unproductiveness -- Factor III-Exploitativeness vs. Nonexploitativeness -- Factor IV-Hoarding vs. Receptive Modes of Assimilation -- Factor V-Sex Role (Masculinity vs. Feminity) -- Factor VI-Mother-Centered vs. Father-Centered Orientations -- Conclusion: Social Character -- 6 CHARACTER, SOCIOECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL VARIABLES -- Character and the Mode of Production -- The Nonejidatario -- Class and Character -- The Character of Women and Socioeconomic Variables -- Character and Education -- Character and Religious and Cultural Activities -- Conclusion -- 7 SEX AND CHARACTER.

Productive and Unproductive Men and Women -- The Relationship Between Men and Women -- The Challenge to Patriarchy -- 8 ALCOHOLISM -- Cultural Vulnerability -- Psychological Vulnerability -- Receptive Character -- Machismo, Narcissism and Sadism -- The Mother Fixation -- The Abstainers -- Psychosocial Vulnerability: The Undermined Patriarchy -- Economic Vulnerability -- 9 THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER IN CHILDHOOD -- Infancy -- Early Childhood -- Middle Childhood to Adolescence -- The Villager at the End of Childhood -- Comparison of Character of Children and Adults -- Character Factors in Childhood -- Correlations of Parental and Child Characters -- Correlations of Parental and Adult Offspring Characters -- 10 POSSIBILITIES FOR CHANGE: CHARACTER AND COOPERATION -- Cooperation in the Village -- Anticooperative Attitudes -- Possibilities for Cooperation -- The Village Boys' Club -- 11 CONCLUSIONS -- The Method -- The Theory of Social Character -- Outlook -- APPENDIX A: THE INTERPRETATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE AND EXAMPLES OF SCORING -- APPENDIX B: SCORING AGREEMENT AND THE USE OF THE RORSCHACH AND THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TESTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

After the completion of the revolution in 1920, Mexico quickly became an increasingly industrialized country.

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