Hello, dear readers of the KtoNaNovenkogo.ru blog. Despite the fact that this concept is used by many scientific directions, biology is rightfully considered its ancestor.
She interprets this term as a separate individual , a living organism, endowed with characteristics and qualities that distinguish it from other species of living things. That is, an individual can be called an individual camel, a person, a ciliate, a shoe, and so on.
The individual of the human race is studied by psychologists, sociologists, and social scientists. This will be discussed in this article.
Concept of biological being
The term “human” is used in society as a general concept that characterizes a biological being. This is the highest stage of evolutionary development, which is the result of socio-historical processes, activity and communication. The definition is used to display and characterize the universal qualities and characteristics inherent in all people without exception.
The concept of “human being” used in psychology combines the characteristics of both a biological and a social being that is capable of influencing the environment in the course of its life activities. Belonging to the class of mammals and the species Homo sapiens determines the presence of certain characteristics:
- special physiological structure;
- ability to engage in various activities;
- the presence of consciousness and understanding of ongoing processes in the surrounding world;
- the ability to create the fruits of one’s own labor or the tools to obtain them.
Proponents of philosophy call a person a single organism, an integral system, the main elements of which are the physical and mental principles, the genetically inherent and subsequently formed unity of natural, spiritual, and social qualities.
It is common for a person to be aware of the structure of his own activities. This is called the goals and motives of work. Each subject in society has his own personal motives, reasons and intentions. Any human activity is assessed by the degree of motivation and specific focus. In addition, a creature representing the highest stage of evolution is characterized by all muscular movements and conscious use of the speech apparatus.
Unlike other representatives of the class of mammals, humans tend to acquire the ability to perform certain movements, and not use only innate ones. In addition, human movements and actions are performed using means of communication: facial expressions, gestures, speech.
Due to the development of abilities different from those given at birth, a person becomes an individual and a personality, and therefore ceases to be a primitive creature identified with primates. At the same time, one should distinguish the concept of “individual”, which characterizes outstanding people who demonstrate a high degree of socialization (the desire to stand out and be out of the crowd).
What does “outstanding personality” mean in social studies?
We come across all the terminology listed above at school. But the basis for everything is human predispositions. The structure of human development can be presented sequentially as follows:
- Congenital prerequisites - physical and genetic characteristics.
- Upbringing, communication, political situation, cultural influence or lack thereof.
- Perception of social taboos, prohibitions, requirements, norms, traditions, rituals.
- Self-adjustment of behavior.
- Active exploration of the world through books, textbooks, films and communication with people.
- Forming your own opinions, beliefs, postulates.
Points 5 and 6 can alternate endlessly. This is a normal tendency for a mature personality. With the progress of knowledge, changes occur. If they have not been there for 30-40 years or more, we can talk about orthodoxy and rigidity of thinking.
An “outstanding personality,” according to a social studies textbook, has the following qualities:
- strength of will;
- determination;
- extraordinary abilities, including mental and physical.
Individual characteristics
Having enormous potential for self-development and development as an individual, every person, after birth, manifests himself in certain properties. This is called individual development.
In social science, the concept of “individual” is used to denote the specific characteristics of an individual person. Firstly, each subject has unique external characteristics, eye color and bodily constitution, that is, he acts as a single representative of the species homo sapiens. Secondly, psychological differences can be identified between individuals: emotionality, temperament, character. Thirdly, everyone has a set of specific abilities.
From the point of view of some experts, the fetus in the womb already develops a peripheral and central nervous system in the second month. At five months, the embryo acquires the ability to hear and distinguish sounds, and in the third trimester it can already experience emotions (get scared, react to affection, conversations). Scientists insist that it is in the last months of gestation that the child’s intellectual abilities and psycho-emotional background are formed.
Therefore, there is an opinion that the formation of an individual begins not after birth, but immediately at the birth of a new life. We can briefly highlight its characteristics:
- high level of social activity;
- environmental sustainability;
- psychophysical unity of the organism.
The concept of “individual” in psychology is distinguished from the term “individuality”. It means a set of properties and features that determine the uniqueness of the subject. It manifests itself not only in behavior, but also in the specifics of preferences and interests. Individuality is formed in the environment in which the subject grows and develops, his associations acquired at an early age, and the characteristics of his upbringing. Psychologists say that one is born as an individual, one becomes an individual, and individuality must be defended.
The result of the development of an individual is a personality that is considered as an exclusively social entity.
Personality
The first and most important quality inherent in a person is consciousness, that is, an understanding of one’s activities, the ability to set goals, dream, and reflect one’s attitude towards the world around us. They say this: “you are not born with a personality, you become a person.” The process of personality formation is called socialization.
Signs that characterize personality:
All people are individuals, but there are those who do not meet the requirements of society: a criminal personality, an undeveloped personality, and so on.
Respect for the individual. Society approves or condemns a person. The attitude towards it depends on:
- from human labor;
- from the attitude to the surrounding world;
- from his assessment of himself.
What does the term “personality” mean in social science?
The term “personality” plays an important role in social science and is studied primarily in the section “Man and Society”.
Personality is an individual person as a subject of social life, communication and activity with his own socially conditioned and individually expressed qualities.
Personality is characterized by a unique combination of the individual’s natural properties (age-sex, biochemical, neurodynamic and others) and social qualities formed in a particular environment.
The concept of “personality” allows us to consider a person as a bearer of certain social roles, and to correlate his activities with normatively established principles.
In humanistic philosophical concepts, personality is considered as the highest value for the sake of which social development is carried out.
What characterizes a person as a person
The word “personality” itself had a negative connotation, since since ancient times it has meant a mask under which a person’s true face is hidden.
Typically, the word “mask” was used to characterize a person’s social image, and most often it was used as an insult.
But a lot of time has passed, and now the word “personality” is widely used both in everyday life of ordinary citizens and in educational literature.
Manifestations of personality can be both permanent and temporary: at one moment a person can show willpower, and in another situation he can simply remain silent.
This topic is studied at school in the 6th grade, in a social studies lesson, and already in the 8th grade this topic is fully covered.
Strong personality
Often people appear in society who are called strong personalities. They are characterized by the ability to renounce personal interests in favor of other people, their homeland, and overcome serious difficulties.
Ludwig van Beethoven, a world-famous composer, lost his hearing and then his sight at an early age, but despite this, he continued to compose music and share it with others. Now his works do not lose popularity, but few people know that their author wrote literally feeling the music.
Personal qualities
The definition of “personality” is understood as a specific subject who is distinguished by the ability of cognition, self-awareness, emotional experiences, as well as the ability to influence the world around him and build relationships with other individuals. Psychologists believe that this term refers to anyone who occupies a position in society and is capable of fulfilling a certain role.
Personality cannot be formed outside of society and without connection with it; its main characteristics are the following potentials:
- informative;
- creative;
- communicative;
- value;
- art.
The will of a responsible subject, the ability to control one’s life and build relationships are considered the basis for personal development. These are individuals who understand that natural inclinations cannot control the mind, and a person must consciously guide his own behavior.
For example, a three-year-old child cannot be considered a mature personality. He is not yet aware of why he acted this way and not otherwise, and what consequences his action may lead to. He acts based on his upbringing and habits that he developed in childhood.
It is difficult to call a person who does not have a stable, solid “I” a personality. Many people live in a pattern, mechanically reacting to what is happening in the world around them, and follow exclusively their instincts. If there are adequate habits and their reasonable external manifestations, a decent person appears in society, but without his own “I”.
The formation and definition of a person as an individual is a long process that is associated with:
- with the choice of social roles and functions performed;
- awareness and acceptance of rules and norms of behavior;
- the ability to build relationships and be part of society;
- choose your behavior model responsibly and independently.
It should be understood that in society those who are capable of being different from everyone else always attract attention. But psychologists focus on those features that make this happen. One can always be called a person who knows how to stand out, but not everyone who stands out has the right to be considered a person. Only worthy behavior is the main social characteristic of a subject. Outstanding people have always been distinguished by their determination and willpower, and they are usually perceived as role models.
Properties that characterize an individual
Each concept has its own special features that it possesses. The thing is that in psychology the term “individual” can be characterized by a number of properties. First of all, these are: gender, age category, body features, and characteristics of the functioning of brain activity. Secondly, other inclinations of a person, for example, the type of temperament, can be safely attributed to the properties of an individual. Age qualities can determine a number of characteristics of a person that identify him, the process of his formation as a result of ontogenesis.
Sexual characteristics are the distinctive features of gender. One can name a number of individual-typical parameters that are presented from the point of view of general somaticity, or as constitutional qualities that have neurodynamic distinctive features. Neurodynamic characteristics in this context should be considered as separate aspects of the human psyche.
What characterizes a person as a person
Initially, the word was almost a dirty word. This term is derived from "Face", and this word, in turn, had a negative connotation in everyday life. It meant what we would now call a mask, a role played—deception. For a long time, the concept was not applied directly to people; about the part of the body that we now call so, they said “face”, “guise”.
From this we can deduce the following. Just as an actor puts on a mask during a performance, so an individual becomes a person only in the process of interaction with other people - a kind of role that the character has built for himself.
Properties
I will list those aspects of life that, one way or another, influenced the formation:
- hereditary predisposition;
- parental education (these two factors are easy to confuse; it is often said that the child’s character is similar to the mother’s, but basically this is the adoption of habits);
- people with whom there is frequent interaction - friends, relatives, classmates, employees.
Particular personality traits may be expressed at one moment and deliberately or unintentionally suppressed at another. This is a significant difference between a personality and an individual, because the latter has a constant set of traits that he is not able to correct at will and through willpower, for example, eye color.
Social individual
Unlike young animals, the individual is practically devoid of innate adaptive instincts. Therefore, for survival and further development, he needs communication with his own kind. After all, only in society will a child be able to realize his innate potential and become an individual. Regardless of what society an individual is born into, he will not be able to do without the care and teaching of adults. For full development, a child needs a long time so that he can absorb all the elements and details that he will need in independent life as an adult member of society. Therefore, from the very first days of life, a child needs to be able to communicate with adults.
The individual and society are inseparable. Without society, an individual will never become an individual; without individuals, society simply will not exist. In the initial period of life, interaction with society consists of primary facial reactions, body language, with the help of which the baby informs adults about his needs and shows his satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The responses of adult members of a social group also become clear to him from facial expressions, various gestures and intonations.
As the child grows up and learns to speak, the language of gestures and facial expressions gradually fades into the background, but never throughout the adult life of the individual it completely loses its significance, transforming into the most important tool of nonverbal communications, which expresses feelings sometimes no less, and sometimes and more than ordinary words. This is due to the fact that gestures, facial expressions and postures are less controlled by consciousness than speech, and therefore, in some cases, are even more informative, telling society what the individual wanted to hide.
So, we can confidently say that social qualities (for example, communication) should be formed only in the process of interaction with society in general and communication with other people in particular. Any communication, verbal or non-verbal, is a necessary component for a person to become socialized. The social qualities of an individual are his abilities for social activity and the process of socialization. The earlier the socialization process begins, the easier it will be.
There are various forms of learning through which an individual is socialized, but they should always be used in combination. One of the methods that adults consciously use to teach a child to socially correct and approved behavior is reinforcement learning. Consolidation is realized through the targeted use of the method of rewards and punishments in order to demonstrate to the child which of his behaviors will be desired and approved, and which will be disapproving. In this way, the child is taught to comply with the elementary requirements of hygiene, etiquette, etc. that apply in society.
Some elements of an individual’s everyday behavior can become quite a habit, which leads to the formation of strong associative connections – the so-called conditioned reflexes. One of the channels of socialization is the formation of conditioned reflexes. Such a reflex, for example, could be washing your hands before eating. The next method of socialization is observational learning.
An individual learns how to behave in society by observing the behavior of adults and trying to imitate them. Many children's games are based on imitating the behavior of adults. Role-based social interaction of individuals is also learning. An adherent of this concept, J. Mead, believes that mastering social norms and rules of behavior occurs through interactions with other people and through various games, especially role-playing games (for example, playing mother and daughter). Those. learning occurs through interaction. By participating in role-playing games, the child brings to life the results of his own observations and his initial experience of social interaction (visiting a doctor, etc.).
Socialization of an individual occurs through the influence of various agents of socialization. The most important and first such agent in the process of social formation of an individual is the family. After all, it is the first and closest “social environment” of the individual. The functions of the family regarding the child include caring for his health and protection. The family also satisfies all the basic needs of the individual. It is the family that initially introduces the individual to the rules of behavior in society and teaches communication with other people. In the family, he first becomes acquainted with gender role stereotypes and undergoes gender identification. It is the family that develops the primary values of the individual. However, at the same time, the family is the institution that can cause the greatest harm to the process of socialization of the individual. For example, the low social status of parents, their alcoholism, conflicts in the family, social alienation or single-parent families, various deviations in the behavior of adults - all this can lead to irreparable consequences and leave an indelible imprint on the child’s worldview, his character and social behavior.
School is the next agent of socialization after family. It is an emotionally neutral environment, which is fundamentally different from the family. At school, the child is treated as one of many and in accordance with his real characteristics. In schools, children learn practically what success and failure are. They learn to overcome difficulties or get used to giving in to them. It is the school that forms an individual’s self-esteem, which, most often, remains with him throughout his adult life.
Another important agent of socialization is the environment of peers. During adolescence, the influence of parents and teachers on children weakens, along with this, the influence of peers increases. All academic failures and lack of parental attention are compensated by the respect of peers. It is among his peers that the child learns to resolve conflict issues and communicate as equals. And in school and family, all communication is built on hierarchy. Relationships in a peer group allow an individual to better understand himself, his strengths and weaknesses.
The needs of the individual are also better understood through group interaction. The social environment of peers makes its own adjustments to the value ideas instilled in the family. Also, interaction with peers allows the child to identify with others and, at the same time, stand out among them.
Since groups of different affiliations interact in the social environment: family, school, peers, the individual faces some contradictions. For example, an individual’s family values mutual assistance, but at school the spirit of competition dominates. Therefore, an individual has to feel the influence of different people. He tries to fit into different surroundings. As an individual matures and develops intellectually, he learns to see such contradictions and analyze them. As a result, the child creates his own set of values. The formed values of an individual allow them to more accurately define their own personality, outline a life plan and become an proactive member of society. The process of forming such values can be a source of significant social change.
Also among the agents of socialization it is necessary to highlight the media. In the process of their development, the individual and society continuously interact, which determines the successful socialization of the individual.
Let's give a terminological definition with brief characteristics
I will list the most popular words that are often confused by ordinary people. Let's take a wide range of explanations - from everyday and colloquial to scientific.
Human
First of all, this name is used in biology, history, and archeology to distinguish a biological species that has certain structural features of the body and brain. It is an upright creature endowed with cognitive abilities. The word is appropriate to use both in combination with the more social “humanity” and when contrasted with the animal world. This can be called absolutely every one of our “relatives” - from children to adults.
Characteristic features that distinguish a person from a personality:
- The result of the evolutionary process.
- The presence of consciousness and self-awareness.
- The need to be in society, the need to communicate with others like oneself.
- A single way of communication through language, that is, the work of speech recognition and speech reproduction, with the exception of those who have lost the opportunity or have not had it since birth due to their anatomical structure.
- Features of anatomy - upright posture, the presence of fingers and toes.
- The ability to use devices to achieve a goal - any objects used for their intended purpose.
Subjective meaning (that is, a person as a subject of relationships, historical process and cultural) turns a biological species into a social being.
Individual
From Latin the word individuum is translated as “indivisible.” We actually completely copied it (but the meaning of “individual” is still different).
This concept can be called every person living in a group, society and possessing qualities that make him the same as his closest relatives. However, it is an independent unit with intrinsic value. This occurs due to the uniqueness of each individual organism on two levels - physiological and psychological. These are not qualities acquired over the years, but traits that are innate - narrow or wide-set eyes, the presence of a dimple on the chin, timbre of voice or ringing laughter.
Characteristics, what is the difference between an individual and personality:
- The object of the human population cannot be alone, it is inseparable from its own kind.
- Social activity - the presence of roles, statuses, for example, husband or wife, daughter, son, mother, father or neighbor, teacher, friend.
- The ability to adapt on a psycho-emotional level to those around you – the ability to find a compromise and adapt to the demands of society.
These are any qualities that are determined in comparison with other people, in contrast or in accordance.
How personality differs from individuality and individual, examples
The term comes from the word “Person”, and in English the tracing paper from Latin is established - persona.
The definition is inextricably linked with personal qualities, that is, it continues the concept of individuum, making it even more personalized. If earlier we talked about the individual characteristics that a person had innately, now it is more correct to talk about the acquired character, which is revealed in communication and relationships with other people. It is impossible to talk about personal traits without comparison or contrast with society.
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The term is used in many sciences and reflects individual characteristics. Let's go through scientific areas:
- Linguistics. “Language, speech and communicative personality.” Everything can be tied into a single knot; often these three persons develop synchronously. They are all in one person. The quality can be called acquired, because the child at birth does not have speech. The first concept reflects the depth of constructed thoughts, sentences, and the structure of texts. The second explains the degree of verbal expression skill. The third is the ability to engage in various verbal interactions.
- Philosophy. In this science, the most common interpretations of the term appeared; it became a stumbling block. For the first time, the concept of “face” began to reflect a person and his inner world. Over time, philosophical wrangling, experts came to a consensus that a person, unlike an individual, has three traits: free will, reason and feelings.
- Sociology. There are many ideas, but the fundamental one is how the society in which a person lives affects his personal qualities, abilities, and character traits. This once again emphasizes the social orientation of the term.
- Psychology. Perhaps the psychological approach is the most correct. It is at the level of consciousness and the unconscious that a set of developed habits, preferences, experience, knowledge, established opinions and stereotypes of thinking appears. All these features determine a person’s attitude to nature, culture, history, and other people.
Let's give an example. Having your own opinion about the political situation means having the traits of personal development. A young man, and especially a child, can only repeat what was said or heard on TV, but not generate his own assessment.
Personality and man, what is the difference, characteristic features:
- presence of temperament;
- pronounced character - people talk about his inclinations even in infancy;
- individual abilities - they need to be developed;
- all actions have motivation.
In general, we can say that personal qualities are cultivated in oneself and controlled, adjusted independently.
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Individuality
The last term that is often confused within the listed definitions. Usually it is understood as personal striking features. The word has its root in the same Latin individuum, that is, “indivisible.” The differences between an individual’s personality and individuality are that the latter distinctive features can be displayed not only in behavior and psychology, but also in purely external manifestations. An example is an individual, author’s, unique style of clothing.
If you feel ordinary, one in a million, and do not find any special characteristics in yourself, this may mean:
- either you have nothing to express;
- or you don't know how.
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Individual behavior
Behavior is a special form of activity of the human body, which masters the environment. In this aspect, behavior was considered by I. Pavlov. It was he who introduced this term. With the help of this term, it has become possible to display the sphere of relationships between an individual interacting individual and the environment in which he exists and interacts.
Individual behavior is the individual’s reaction to any changes in external or internal conditions. It can be conscious or unconscious. Human behavior develops and is realized in society. It is associated with goal setting and speech regulation. The behavior of an individual always reflects the process of his integration into society (socialization).
Any behavior has its reasons. It is determined by the events that precede it and cause a certain form of manifestation. Behavior is always purposeful.
An individual's goals are based on his unmet needs. Those. any behavior is characterized by the goal that it seeks to achieve. Goals perform motivating, controlling and organizational functions and are the most important management mechanism. To achieve them, a number of specific actions are performed. Behavior is also always motivated. Whatever the behavior, challenging or detached, it necessarily contains a motive that determines the immediate form of its manifestation.
In the process of technological progress in modern science, another term has appeared - virtual behavior. This type of behavior combines theatricality and naturalness. Theatricality is due to the illusion of natural behavior.
The behavior of an individual has the following characteristics:
- level of activity (initiative and energy);
- emotional expressiveness (the nature and intensity of manifested affects);
- pace or dynamism;
- stability, which consists in the constancy of manifestations in different situations and at different times;
- awareness based on understanding one’s behavior;
- arbitrariness (self-control);
- flexibility, i.e. changes in behavioral reactions in response to environmental transformations.
How psychologists view this term
An individual is called the exact bearer of all the traits that are given to humanity. But in psychology, the term individual is characterized by the integrity of the psychophysical organizations of the body, its activity, as well as resistance to manifest actions.
A person lives as an individual from the beginning of his birth until the moment of death. This condition is the initial one on the planet from the point of view of its phylogenetic formation, as well as ontogenetic development. It is a concrete product of the creation of life, which actively interacts with a variety of surrounding criteria, and not a series of conditions that appeared suddenly. One thing is clear: it is impossible to consider a personality without close attention and emphasis on his individual characteristics.
They thus act as the foundation of human content. It is on them that a number of conditions for the development of each representative of the human race will depend, that is, on the inclinations that were invested in him at the genetic level. An individual has a number of basic functions, and specifically there are two of them. One is classified as conservation, thanks to which the process of distribution of energy and dynamic characteristics occurs, as well as a number of resource characteristics. But the other one is responsible for the function of so-called changes, from the point of view of plasticity of behavior.
What are the differences between the terms individual, individuality and personality: characteristics
Let's take into account:
- An individual is a single representative of the human race, a separate person, regardless of his real anthropological and social characteristics.
- Individuality is the unique originality of a person’s manifestations, emphasizing the versatility and harmony, naturalness and ease of his activities.
- Personality is a human individual who is a subject of conscious activity, possessing a set of socially significant traits, properties and qualities that he realizes in public life.
What have we learned?
The concepts of man, individual, personality, individuality are united by the fact that they all characterize people as biological and social beings with natural properties and qualities acquired in the process of life and interaction with other members of society. Such a system of concepts helps to organize the properties of a person and examine him from different sides. An individual is a biological being, one of all people. Personality – possessing a number of social qualities. Individuality – having a set of properties and characteristics that is unique in nature. Each person is an individual, personality and individuality.
Correlation of the concepts “individual”, “individuality”, “personality”
Man is noticeably different from all living beings. Personality, individual, individuality - these concepts can divide people into several categories, which makes them more complex in relation to other representatives of the animal world.
Any creature that belongs to the human race can be called by one term - an individual. But not every creature can be called a person. As mentioned earlier, to become a person, you must be highly developed. Also lead an active and successful life in society. That is, the concepts of “individual” and “personality” are not related. They are in a sense opposite. The same can be said about the relationship between the terms “individual” and “individuality”. The last concept characterizes personality. Individuality is an indicator of a person’s highly developed state.
The relationship between the concepts “individual”, “individuality”, “personality” should be considered as a kind of human evolution. At birth, he is in the first stage of development. Over time, he gains new properties that are mixed with his genetic information. It becomes unique, that is, it acquires individuality. Later he develops psychologically, becomes conscious, active, responsible, capable of successful interaction with the social environment. He can already be called a personality.
Thus, people can be divided into two broad categories. A non-developing person who uses only the basic properties given by nature, an uneducated person who does not play a special role in society, belongs to the first group. This is an individual. Individuality, personality - in psychology, these concepts characterize socially active people and form the second category.
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Why a person is an individual: description
Every person is an individual. After all, we were all born on Earth and are representatives of the human race. In most modern theories, what distinguishes humans from animals is culture, which plays a decisive role in determining human behavior and actions. After all, human nature is recognized as binary, that is, man is a biosocial being.
A table proving that a person is an individual.
| Animal | Human |
| Life is accompanied by instincts. | Along with instincts, a person has thinking and articulate speech. This directs human activity. |
| All actions are initially programmed; the activities of animals are unconscious. | Carries out conscious, purposeful creative activity. A person is able to keep his instincts under control. |
| Reproduces only its biological essence. The tools of their labor are primitive objects of the environment. | Reproduces its not only biological, but also social essence; makes tools; creates material and spiritual values. |
What is the difference between an individual and an individual?
Although these two words have the same root, they have completely different meanings. The first term can be applied to virtually any person who lives among people, has adapted to society and is not only a biological species, but also a representative of society. But the second definition involves the development of the individual. You can develop natural, innate properties (never cut your hair, they will grow to incredible sizes), or you can get acquired ones.
Often people consider themselves individuals only because they try to go against the general opinion. Such informals really differ from the crowd, but the problem is that there are a lot of them, they are already creating their own informal mass. Among her, tattoos, ripped jeans, green hair and ear tunnels become commonplace. Thus, only one that is invented independently and not copied from another can be considered an individual solution.
Individual and personality: differences
A person is born an individual, the status of the individual is already established in the process of development. Distinguishing between the definition of an individual and a personality will help to assess the functioning of a person.
So, what is the difference between an individual and a personality?
- Interaction with society. A person remains an individual from birth to death, and he is formed as a personality only in interaction or opposition with society.
- Confession. All people have equal rights, that is, each person initially has his own individuality. However, personality has certain social advantages: recognition, power, authority.
- Adequacy. One is born an individual, but one becomes a person.
- Mindfulness. The path to acquiring personality status is a conscious action of the individual.
- Quantity. There are tens of millions of personalities in the world, and approximately seven billion individuals.
A person who is removed from society very quickly loses his personality traits - he begins to poorly understand other people, to the point of forgetting the language. At the same time, the development of the genetic code occurs by nature, regardless of the life changes of a person. A person can become an individual even with limited abilities.
Life in society and status
In the process of evolution, man occupied the highest point in the hierarchy of the animal world. In the process of development, each person goes through a certain path from an individual to a developed personality with a certain set of qualities that distinguish people from each other.
This process contributes to the formation of a certain worldview. Society greatly influences the formation of personality. If it is free, then people are distinguished by their individuality, as well as the ability to express themselves. This leads to the fact that a developed personality grows out of an individual.
A person occupies a social status and is capable of realizing it. Social status can be either temporary or permanent.
