Erich Fromm until his death in 1980, was professor at Michigan State University; and adjunct professor of psychology at New York University from 1955 to 1968. He also served as head of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the Medical School of the National University of Mexico. His many works include The Art of Loving, Man for Himself, Escape from Freedom, The Heart of Man, and The Revolution of Hope.
Michael Maccoby has taught at the College of the University of Chicago, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 1978 to 1990 he directed the Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He now directs the Project on Technology, Work and Character in Washington, D.C. He is author of The Gamesman, The Leader, and Why Work?
""Social Character in a Mexican Village" is notable both for methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies."
--George M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley"Fromm and Maccoby have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way to a more human type of development."
--Richard J. Barnet, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies
""Social Character in a Mexican Village" is notable both for methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies."
--George M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley "Fromm and Maccoby have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way to a more human type of development."
--Richard J. Barnet, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies
"Social Character in a Mexican Village is notable both for methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies."
--George M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley "Fromm and Maccoby have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way to a more human type of development."
--Richard J. Barnet, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies
-Social Character in a Mexican Village is notable both for methodology and theory. The first serious attempt to combine intensive psychological and psychoanalytic research techniques with detailed anthropological observations, it gives insights into peasant life going far beyond more traditional studies.-
--George M. Foster, University of California, Berkeley -Fromm and Maccoby have written a study of crucial importance. They have documented the destructiveness to a Mexican village of this developmental concept. They have presented this evidence in the framework of a seminal theory of social character. And they have pointed the way to a more human type of development.-
--Richard J. Barnet, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies