ABSTRACT
Changes in patterns of psychosocial adaptation can originate with either side of the compromise they represent, personality genotypes or normative pressures. Inkeles and Levinson (1954), positing functional congruence between personality and sociocultural system as the stable condition, mention institutionally induced and personality-induced noncongruence as the conditions of change. In this chapter I discuss the processes of change implied by these general categories, giving equal or greater weight to the most neglected area, that of personality-induced change.
