"Kulturowe podstawy osobowości" : zaproszenie do lektury

Abstract

The text The Cultural Background of Personality by Ralph Linton, considered as a specific kind of a message, interpreted in terms of methodical rather than methodological guidelines, nowadays seems to be a noteworthy starting point for understanding the processes that have taken place in cultural sciences in the previous decades. The reasons for marginalizing this proposal in Poland seem interesting as well, especially in the context of Linton’s reflection on ”why members of a given society accept or reject certain inventions”. Three issues will appear in the considerations presented: a fragmentary reconstruction of Linton’s argument taking into account the debts to then leading humanist concepts, the non-obvious Polish reception of his concepts and the potential embedded in his proposals, especially when it comes to the instruments that can be used in interdisciplinary research of historical and contemporary cultures.