PERSONALITY AS AN ELEMENT OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

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作者
CAMPBELL, RD [1 ]
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[1] MATRIX CORP,ALEXANDRIA,VA
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10.1111/j.1467-8306.1968.tb01665.x
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P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
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0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Many recent studies in the social and behavioral sciences consider personality a powerful influence on man's activities and institutions. The difficulty with the inclusion of personality in regional geography or any other science is that personality is both described and derived in many different ways. There are many ways of describing the personality of the individual, but three basic elements of most descriptions are motives, self-view, and world-view. The description of collective personality is much more complex, because it may either be derived statistically from the description of a number of individuals (modal personality) or it may be inferred from culture (national character). Moreover, culture-derived personality descriptions may be based on two antithetical assumptions. Despite these difficulties, the variety of disciplines and applied fields which geographers typically draw upon for the purposes of regional geography and which now seriously include some facet of personality as a dynamic causative element is growing. Some examples are regional economics, political science, jurisprudence, sociology, and foreign relations. The regional geographer can effectively make use of studies in these fields if he can put aside, at least for the time, the difficult problem of the effect of environment upon personality formation. © 1968, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
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