tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post9136306478224091066..comments2023-11-02T09:08:09.242-07:00Comments on <i>Daddy Dialectic</i>: We are cultureJeremy Adam Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11733669114207985920noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post-88208145319259577382008-09-15T13:31:00.000-07:002008-09-15T13:31:00.000-07:00As a side note, I imagine there is also greater pe...As a side note, I imagine there is also greater personality differences within the genders in modern society. I am not sure if the study even considered this point. Perhaps it is not a gender issue at all. As "chicago pop" said, modern society provides a platform for diversification of personality. And this applies to all individuals, male, female, and transgender.Integral Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01521051851108110155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post-33436816867506118032008-09-14T23:33:00.000-07:002008-09-14T23:33:00.000-07:00If the study had looked to discover role differenc...If the study had looked to discover role differences between the sexes in these various societies it would have come to the conclusion that social anthropologist have known for quite some time. The transition from agrarian to horticultural work demanded differentiation in roles to promote healthy fertility rates. But since the study chose to discover “personality differences” then I can possibly explain why it concluded that there are greater differences in personalities between men and women in modern culture, than say its agrarian predecessor. And I would also contend that this is actually a good thing. Radical feminist, as opposed to liberal feminist (who don’t want to acknowledge any differences between the sexes), have agreed that there are fundamental differences between men and women. What radical feminist (radical is not a pejorative term here) want to address is the tradition roles that women have been confined to. In the modern era women are no longer bound to the limits of their biology. With the emergence of non-physical related work on a massive scale, women are rightly finding their equal place in the workplace since women are no doubt equal to men in matters of the mind. However, this emergent culture was not possible prior to fundamental shift in consciousness and evolution. The emergence of modern culture dating back to the Enlightenment was directly related to an emergence in the evolution of consciousness and a change from a role based identity to an individual based one. The ego/Self emerging from its slumber to greater levels of its own awareness. And as this Self comes to greater awareness, its ego becomes differentiated from its environment. It begins to ask questions that challenge conventional roles that it finds itself surrounded by. And this was only now possible with the Industrialization of labor. And this is a good thing, not a bad one. This study’s conclusions, I am afraid, suggest boarding the Regress Express, as Ken Wilber noticed of many Romantic philosophies. We are just on the brink of the next chapter in this post-modern world. And no doubt, it is going to be more challenging than ever before. But fortunately, men and women’s hope for equality lie in our collective future, not some mythic past.Integral Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01521051851108110155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post-89385117922569357052008-09-09T07:40:00.000-07:002008-09-09T07:40:00.000-07:00Yes! It always makes me happy to learn of anything...Yes! It always makes me happy to learn of anything that pisses of evolutionary psychologists. Thank you for this.<BR/><BR/>The personality difference thing would actually jive with the old sociology of Durkheim; modern industrial society drives specialization and differentiation in the economy and social organization, which provides a platform for diversification of individual personality, as well as between genders. Even if certain gender differences dissolved, there could be larger differences between individuals apart from gender. <BR/><BR/>I would also think it's impossible to approach this problem apart from class; any suspected uniformity of traits across genders in the west would have much to do, I would guess, with the erosion of class hierarchies. Historically, differences between classes have been greater than differences between individuals. The reverse may now be true.chicago pophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055796523227869734noreply@blogger.com