ABSTRACT
The individual is always born into a group which has a culture. In this sense society and culture are always antecedent to any particular individual. The fundamental drives and their course through cycles of activity toward satisfaction come to operate only in terms of group and cultural relations. The interrelations of our three major variables—organism, society or groups, and culture—are dynamic—an interplay of events within organism in relation to events among other organisms. Cultural influences, of course, are prominent in both types of groups. It shows that many of the cultural features carry over from primary to secondary groups, and that in some instances there is a direct relationship between the individual and the secondary group without the intermediation of the primary group itself. A person may have a low status in one group and a high status in another. In the development of the personality there is nothing more fundamental than the status attributed to one by his fellows.
