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The Reith Lectures: George Carstairs - This Island Now: Stability and Change in Social Environment

1962: George Carstairs - This Island Now

11/11/1962

Stability and Change in Social Environment

George Carstairs - This Island Now

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, George Carstairs - This Island Now, Stability and Change in Social Environment

Professor George Carstairs explores how our environment affects our personality.

Professor George Carstairs explores how our environment affects our personality in his first Reith lecture entitled 'Stability and Change in Social Environments'.

This year's Reith lecturer is Dr George Carstairs, the Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Medical Research Council's unit for psychiatric illness. He is the author of a study of a Hindu community entitled, 'The Twice Born' and in his Reith series 'This Island Now', he contemplates social anthropology patterns. 

In his first Reith lecture entitled 'Stability and Change in Social Environments', Dr Carstairs explores how the interaction of tradition, environment, kinship and personality all play a role in social development. He examines where things have gone wrong and how that contributes to a malaise in the community. He considers the theories of anthropologists and psychologists to understand personality development in order to lay down a framework for exploring why there are these ills within society. 

The Reith Lectures: George Carstairs - This Island Now

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The psychiatrist Dr George Carstairs examines social anthropology patterns.

Dr George Carstairs, psychiatrist and Professor of Psychological Medicine, examines social anthropology patterns in his Reith lecture series This Island Now.

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