Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth

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Strukturtyp:: Monographie

Werks-URN (URL):: https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-d-6472736

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-d-6472736

Persistenter Identifier:: BV045453616

Titel:: Patterns of culture

Autor:: Benedict, Ruth

Erscheinungsort:: New York

Verlag:: The New American Library

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1953

Signatur:: A 139 (SA)

Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Soziale Organisation und Praxis

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Titel:: VIII. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture

Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

VII The Individual and the Pattern of Culture THE large corporate behaviour we have discussed is nevertheless the behaviour of individuals. It is the world with which each person is severally presented, the world from which he must make his individual life. Accounts of any civilization condensed into a few dozen pages must necessarily throw into relief the group standards and de- scribe individual behaviour as it exemplifies the motiva- tions of that culture. The exigencies of the situation are misleading only when this necessity is read off as implying that he is submerged in an overpowering ocean. There is no proper antagonism between the rôle of society and that of the individual. One of the most mis- leading misconceptions due to this nineteenth-century dualism was the idea that what was subtracted from society was added to the individual and what was sub- tracted from the individual was added to society. Philoso- phies of freedom, political creeds of laissez faire, revolu- tions that have unseated dynasties, have been built on this dualism. The quarrel in anthropological theory be- tween the importance of the culture pattern and of the individual is only a small ripple from this fundamental conception of the nature of society. In reality, society and the individual are not antagonists. His culture provides the raw material of which the indi- vidual makes his life. If it is meagre, the individual suffers: if it is rich, the individual has the chance to rise to his opportunity. Every private interest of every man and woman is served by the enrichment of the traditional stores of his civilization. The richest musical sensitivity can operate only within the equipment and standards of 5:232

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