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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- FOREWORD -- 1 THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF THE PEASANT AND PROBLEMS OF METHODOLOGY -- The Peasant -- The Dynamic Concept of Character -- The Social Character -- The Method -- 2 A MEXICAN PEASANT VILLAGE -- The Past and the Present -- The Hacienda -- The Inner Life of the Villagers -- 3 A SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PICTURE OF THE VILLAGE -- Age, Place of Birth, and Family Groupings -- Literacy and Schooling -- Medical Care -- Occupation -- Land Tenure -- Housing -- Other Capital Possessions -- Consumer Goods -- The Socioeconomic Scale -- Class and Participation in Village Affairs -- Participation in Religious and Cultural Activities -- 4 THE THEORY OF CHARACTER ORIENTATIONS -- Types of Character: The Nonproductive Orientations -- The Productive Orientation -- Orientations in the Process of Socialization -- Incestuous Ties -- Blends of Various Orientations -- Sociopolitical Orientations -- 5 THE CHARACTER OF THE VILLAGERS -- Variables of Scoring Character -- The Distribution of Character Traits -- The Factor Analysis -- The Meaning of Factor Scores and Factor Loadings -- The Six Factors -- Factor I-Adulthood vs. Adolescence -- Factor II-Productiveness vs. Unproductiveness -- Factor III-Exploitativeness vs. Nonexploitativeness -- Factor IV-Hoarding vs. Receptive Modes of Assimilation -- Factor V-Sex Role (Masculinity vs. Feminity) -- Factor VI-Mother-Centered vs. Father-Centered Orientations -- Conclusion: Social Character -- 6 CHARACTER, SOCIOECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL VARIABLES -- Character and the Mode of Production -- The Nonejidatario -- Class and Character -- The Character of Women and Socioeconomic Variables -- Character and Education -- Character and Religious and Cultural Activities -- Conclusion -- 7 SEX AND CHARACTER

Changes in technology, customer demands, competition, and the social character challenge organizations to innovate and change. How they change depends on their leaders, and their knowledge, and philosophy. To create a better future for organizations and to improve the wellbeing of customers, collaborators and communities, leaders need to be strategic thinkers. This book describes the qualities of strategic intelligence and provides the conceptual tools that equip leaders to improve and transform organizations in the age of knowledge work. These qualities include foresight, visioning, partnering both within and outside the organization, and engaging and motivating collaborators. To develop these qualities, it is necessary to articulate a leadership philosophy and to gain knowledge of systems, variation, personality psychology, and the theory of knowledge. This book uniquely integrates leadership, personality and organization. Michael Maccoby has almost unparalleled experience of working with organizations in a wide variety of contexts.0He draws his insights from several disciplines - organization theory, psychoanalysis, anthropology; and from working with distinguished and pioneer thinkers. These include the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm; the systems theorist Russell Ackoff; and management pioneer W. Edwards Deming. A major challenge for leadership today is the transformation of traditional bureaucracies into learning organizations. It can't be done by following formulas or roadmaps. Leaders need the qualities and conceptual tools of strategic intelligence and this book shows them what they must do and provides exercises to develop them

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Erich Fromm's work in psychology & social theory includes an analysis of the contradiction in Sigmund Freud's thought between bourgeois patriarchal morality & radical demystification; however, Fromm's work contains its own contradiction between generative theory of social character & an idealistic concept of the "productive" individual. Fromm introduced the concept of "social character," basing it on existential necessities imposed by the SE system, & interpreted Freud's theories as revealing some of the motivational basis for the individual's pursuit of this imposed behavior, while rejecting Freud's pessimistic concept of human nature. However, Fromm's concept of the productive person is an ideal type without clinical or historical grounding. It does not offer an adequate basis for resolving the problems of neurotics, but in fact is likely to encourage submission to them, blocking the attainment of positive relationships to social institutions & situations. W. H. Stoddard.

Mexican authors have limited their discussions of national character to the mestizo population of the central plateau. Their analyses are overburdened with a self-denigra tive view of Mexican national character, stressing inferiority feelings stamped by the Conquest. More recently, Mexican psychoanalysts have focused on the Conquest and subsequent revolutionary upheavals as generators of conflict between the sexes, which they see as the most crucial determinant of Mexi can psychopathology. The Mexican male tries to impose a patriarchal ideal, but he is constantly undermined by resentful women. Attempting to act with an authority he does not feel, the male assumes an exaggerated role of masculinity ( machismo), but the female, especially the mother, holds the real power in the family. Although empirical study confirms the existence of this pattern, it also shows that these writers ignore the large percentage of Mexicans who are well adapted to their society and have character traits common to peasants throughout the world. Furthermore, socioeconomic factors which contribute to maladaptive character structures are un derplayed. In Mexico, the clash between high ideals and the reality of a developing society intensifies feelings of inferiority, with the result that Mexicans undervalue their creative aspects and the progress they have made since the semifeudal society crumbled with the 1910 Revolution.

Mexican authors have limited their discussions of nat'l character to the mestizo pop of the central plateau. Their analyses are overburdened with a self-denigrative view of Mexican nat'l character, stressing inferiority feelings stamped by the Conquest. More recently, Mexican psychoanalysts have focused on the Conquest & subsequent revolutionary upheavals as generators of conflict between the sexes, which they see as the most crucial determinant of Mexican psychopathology. The Mexican M tries to impose a patriarchal ideal, but he is constantly undermined by resentful women. Attempting to act with an authority he does not feel, the M assumes an exaggerated role of masculinity (machismo). Although empirical study confirms the existence of this pattern, it also shows that these writers ignore the large % of Mexicans who are well adapted to their society & have character traits common to peasants throughout the world. Furthermore, SE factors which contribute to maladaptive character structures are underplayed. In Mexico, the clash between high ideals & the reality of a developing society intensifies feelings of inferiority, with the result that Mexicans undervalue their creative aspects & the progress they have made since the semifeudal society crumbled with the 1910 Revolution. HA.

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- 1. The Social Character of the Peasant and Problems of Methodology -- The Peasant -- The Dynamic Concept of Character -- The Social Character -- The Method -- 2. A Mexican Peasant Village -- The Past and the Present -- The Hacienda -- The Inner Life of the Villagers -- 3. A Socioeconomic and Cultural Picture of the Village -- Age, Place of Birth, and Family Groupings -- Literacy and Schooling -- Medical Care -- Occupation -- Land Tenure -- Housing -- Other Capital Possessions -- Consumer Goods -- The Socioeconomic Scale -- Class and Participation in Village Affairs -- Participation in Religious and Cultural Activities -- 4. The Theory of Character Orientations -- Types of Character: The Nonproductive Orientations -- The Productive Orientation -- Orientations in the Process of Socialization -- Incestuous Ties -- Blends of Various Orientations -- Sociopolitical Orientations -- 5. The Character of the Villagers -- Variables of Scoring Character -- The Distribution of Character Traits -- The Factor Analysis -- The Meaning of Factor Scores and Factor Loadings -- The Six Factors -- Factor I-Adulthood vs. Adolescence -- Factor II-Productiveness vs. Unproductiveness -- Factor III-Exploitativeness vs. Non-exploitativeness -- Factor IV-Hoarding vs. Receptive Modes of Assimilation -- Factor V-Sex Role (Masculinity vs. Feminity) -- Factor VI-Mother-Centered vs. Father-Centered Orientations -- Conclusion: Social Character -- 6. Character, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Variables -- Character and the Mode of Production -- The Nonejidatario -- Class and Character -- The Character of Women and Socioeconomic Variables -- Character and Education -- Character and Religions and Cultural Activities -- Conclusion -- 7. Sex and Character -- Productive and Unproductive Men and Women -- The Relationship Between Men and Women.