Influence of Culture on Personality



Influence of Culture on Personality

Introduction

The concept of culture allows us to reinforce the idea that societies to survive and establish itself as such, need a common cultural orientation which in turn needs to be shared as widely as possible by the members of this so they can devise a corporate identity common, thus providing "a set of action with a very stable structural anchor. The roles should therefore be a starting point that allows your settings (and society), so the relevance of the question in relation to culture and personality, could help us understand how society organizing or taking shape based on the guidelines, motivations and values ??of the parties with respect to a situation.  This essay will attempt to answer the question of how the culture influences the personality. This question forces us to try to understand from a systemic point of view, how culture, as is a systemic configuration, represents the first step in structuring the system of action and society would not be in effect strict all possible personalities, but in reality would be the formation of all possible roles. Ecologies shape cultures; cultures influence the development of personalities. There are both universal and culture-specific aspects of variation in personality. Some culture-specific aspects correspond to cultural syndromes such as complexity, tightness, individualism, and collectivism.

Question: Does culture influence personality?

Definition of the Terms

Culture

Culture is the set of all forms, models or patterns, explicit or implicit, through which a society governs the behavior of individuals within it. As such it includes customs, practices, codes, standards and rules of the manner, dress, religion, rituals, and norms of behavior and belief systems. From another point of view we can say that culture is all the information and skills that humans possess (Triandis & Suh, 2002). The concept of culture is fundamental to the disciplines that are responsible for the study of society, especially anthropology and sociology.

Influence

Influence means to Determine or alter a person's way of thinking or acting for another or others. Influence is a process of social relationship between two entities, one that holds (the group) and another that receives it (the person), introduces certain predictability in the conduct of members. The social influence or social pressure is the influence of a group of leading each member to impose its standards prevailing in the area of attitude and behavior. This influence leads to changes in attitudes, beliefs, opinions of an individual or group following contact with another individual or group. The group has an influence on the individual enormous.

Personality

Personality is a hypothetical construct complex can be defined in many different ways and means a consistent tendency to behave in certain ways in different situations. Personality refers to the unique range consistent behavioral traits of an individual. A personality trait is a lasting trend to behave in certain ways in different situations. Certain adjectives such as honest, trustworthy, temperamental, impulsive, suspicious, anxious, excitable, domineering and friendly describe the trends that dominate personality traits (Segall et al, ...