Uncritical worldviews make a single personality a composite of many historical layers

Evidence

If you aim for a universal character you may end up with a vague or dull or windy one. If you set out to write a typical character you’re likely to produce a caricature, because people are typical only in the generalized qualities that lump them together. Typical is the most provincial adjective in a writer’s vocabulary, signaling that you’re writing only for those who share your assumptions. A “typical” schoolgirl in Dar es Salaam is a very different type from one in San Francisco. Furthermore, every person is typical of many things successively or simultaneously. She may be in turn a typical schoolgirl, bride, divorcée, and feminist. He may be at one and the same time a typical New Yorker, math professor, doting father, and adulterer. It is in the confrontation and convolution of types that much of our individuality is produced. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Humanism created a consciousness of historical depth that earlier epochs lacked. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 286; Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch; Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 284 (+4 more)

Related

• Everyone is composed of multiple social identities that position them differently (similarity 0.88)
• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types (similarity 0.88)
• Individual identity is stabilized only within collective cultural networks (similarity 0.80)
• Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals (similarity 0.80)
• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology (similarity 0.79)
• Clique-dominated society demands self-representation as a type rather than as an individual. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types #expands (0.92) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284
• Man is a historical bloc of subjective and material elements #corroborates (0.88)