| Abstract: |
In 1954, in a paper now generally regarded as a milestone in the culture-personality literature, the sociologist Alex Inkeles and psychologist Daniel J. Levinson outlined an approach to cross-cultural psychological research in which they urged researchers to maintain, both theoretically and methodologically, a clear distinction between the typical personality characteristics of the people they were studying and the sociocultural system in which those people lived. Only by maintaining such a distinction, they noted, could the "interaction and reciprocal influence" of personality and sociocultural system be intelligently examined.
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