ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the individual's inner activity, especially the world of meaning that is vital to our understanding of external conduct. A large segment of this inner world of content and meaning consists of stereotypes, social myths and legends, and what we call ideologies. Other segments of meaning, of course, are made up of more rigidly defined and logical patterns of thought. Attitudes and the ideas are closely linked together, and such linkage is clearly shown in these illogical but emotionally powerful and socially important in stereotypes. Religious, economic, and political utopias give ample evidence of the tendency to project the solution of problems into the realm of fantasy. Not only are myths and ideologies highly important in any culture, but the legends of societies, heroes, and villains are also significant. In each generation the children of a tribe, community, or nation are early indoc-trinated with the history of their society.
