![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of “culture and personality,” Mead preferred to discuss the “individual in culture.” As early as 1928, her work was replete with discussions of named individuals living in specified, described societies. Nonetheless, in April 1935, Mead wrote to John Dollard that Frank’s phrasing seemed “ridiculous.” In a 1946 overview of the cultural study of personality, Mead held that the “and” that had been used to join the two distinct subjects had introduced a number of “methodological embarrassments.” ![]() Lawrence Frank, a sociologist at the Rockefeller Foundation, seems to have coined the phrase “culture and personality” for an interdisciplinary conference Mead attended in Hanover, New Hampshire, during the summer of 1934. Furthermore, such views are not easily reconciled with Benedict’s and Mead’s differing concepts of deviance. Despite clearly articulated differences in temporal scale, at best Benedict’s writings show an analogy between personalities and cultures. While views of this sort are common, there is little, if any, evidence in Mead’s writings or papers supporting such contentions Mead used the rubric seldom, and then descriptively rather than methodologically. ![]()
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