archetype

(noun)

according to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity

Related Terms

  • affective
  • cognitive

Examples of archetype in the following topics:

  • Psychological Approaches to the Self

    • Jung , the Self is one of several archetypes.
    • He also believed that the Self could be symbolically personified in the archetypes of the Wise Old Woman and Wise Old Man.
  • Childhood Socialization

    • Consider the gender norms with which society imbues infants: The most archetypal example is the notion that male babies like blue things while female babies like pink things.
  • Religious Symbols

    • Religious symbolism is the use by a religion of symbols including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena.
  • Economic Sociology

    • Max Weber's book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is the archetypical representation of the works of economic sociology's classical period .
  • The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood

    • The Father complex in psychology is a complex pertaining to a group of unconscious associations, or strong unconscious impulses, which specifically pertain to the image or archetype of the father.
  • Job Discrimination

    • The most archetypical manifestation of occupational sexism is sexual harassment, or the intimidation, bullying, teasing, or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
  • The Development of Social Science

    • While Newton was merely the archetype of an accelerating trend, the important distinction is that for Newton the mathematical flowed from a presumed reality independent of the observer and it worked by its own rules.
  • Social Status

    • A primary example of social status within a confined community would be the negotiation of social status in high school and the types of statuses that are ascribed to various archetypes such as the jock, the nerd, the theater kid, etc.
  • Sociology and Other Social Sciences

    • While Newton was merely the archetype of an accelerating trend, the important distinction is that for Newton the mathematical flowed from a presumed reality independent of the observer and it worked by its own rules.
  • Tradition vs. Science

    • While Newton was merely the archetype of an accelerating trend, his work highlights an important distinction.
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