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Interactionism
Interactionism
can be seen in individuals with authoritarian personalities. These personalities, often through
cultural influence, tend to display mistrust in people from other cultures different from their own.
In addition, these personalities also exhibit behavior which is supported by the authoritarian’s
culture while generally questioning the behaviors of other people of differing culture with
experience or separate from social experience depending upon the particular circumstance.
Furthermore, I feel each individual has a personality comprised of individual traits which, at
In my opinion I feel the behavioral disposition explanation of the nature of traits most
compatible with my beliefs. This position suggests that reactions occur from internal and
external influences and situational variables. Because my belief is that a reaction can be the
result of, or influenced by, social experience or the result of the individual traits possessed by an
The linguistic categories position, in contrast, would suggest traits do not even exist
outside of the mind and have no influence on behavior at all. This position, then, would imply
that people possess no individual traits and are merely products of “social interaction and
discourse” which is, in my opinion, absurd and fails to recognize human beings and their
behaviors as unique. This position seems to take all individuality away and shifts the onus of