On the Distinction Between Social Roles and Social Types, with Special Reference to the Hippie

THEODORE R. SARBINAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.8.1024

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Social, or folk, typing can be used to identify individuals who occupy relatively undifferentiated social positions and thus cannot be adequately distinguished from other members of a collectivity by means of role characteristics. The author discusses the hippie as a folk type resembling that of the early gnostics and offers some speculations, based upon observations of the fate of similar historical groups, about the ultimate destiny of the hippie type.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125 • Number 8 • February 1969

Pages: 1024 - 1031

PubMed: 5794846

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Published in print: February 1969

Published online: 1 April 2006

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THEODORE R. SARBIN

Professor of psychology and of criminology, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 06457

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On the Distinction Between Social Roles and Social Types, with Special Reference to the Hippie

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