Analysis of Margaret Meade's cultural personality and thought

Up to now, human beings have paid more attention to their future development. Thefuture is a riddle, and human beings are the key of the riddle. Culture is the product ofhuman beings’ civilization. The culture shapes and influences human beings at the sametime. It has closed relationship with personality. Margaret Mead is the founder of Cultureand Personality School. She pointed the direction for us when she was looking for therelation between culture and personality. She believed that culture had irreplaceable effecton shaping personality. Her belief of culture and personality lashed out at biologicaldeterminism. It made people re-examine the function of culture in the process ofpersonality formation. After researching the meaning of culture and personality deeply,the paper has made clear the culture has significant effect on personality formation. Thepersonality excludes the inner constituent which has closed relationship with heredity.Moreover, self-examination is the important part of one’s personality. Only byself-examination and self-improving continuously can human beings keep forward.