TY - JOUR A1 - Akin, Gib T1 - Interpersonal Correlates of Fromm's Character Types, JF - Social Behavior and Personality, Vol. 10 (No. 1, 1982) pp. 77-81. N2 - Based on Erich FROMM's analysis of the social character syndromes of modern industrial society, the contribution of the schools to the development and reproduction of these character orientations is discussed. Following a critical review of basic psychoanalytical and anthropological concepts in FROMM's work, character orientations (receptive, narcissistic, >market<, conformist, and necrophilic-destructive) and their relations to society are elaborated. The hidden processes of socialization by which schools perpetuate the psychological orientations conditioned by society are examined. It is found that learning has become a passive consumption process, resulting in increased alienation of students, as evidenced by lack of interest, truancy, and vandalism. Investigation of students' problems with the schools is needed, the solution of which would necessitate a change in the material substructure of character formation. Y1 - 1982 ER -