ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to examine some revealing cases of sharp contrast in culture and it explains how the personality or life organization of individuals varies with the cultural divergences. Studies in social psychology, anthropology, and sociology have made clear a number of pertinent facts which bear upon any discussion of the interplay of culture and personality. The sensory or receptor organs of seeing, hearing, taste, smell, touch; equilibrium, pain, visceral stimulation, and muscular movement are in structure and function the same everywhere. The human being begins his basic adaptation in a state of dependency on other members of his species, specifically on his kinship group, especially on his mother or, in relatively few instances, a mother substitute. The processes by which the major social institutions function also vary from those that are highly individualistic, competitive, or conflictive to those in which co-operation has a high place.
