or effort. Linton noted that while the definitions of the two concepts are clear and distinct, it is not always easy to identify whether an individual's status is ascribed or achieved. His perspective offers a deviation from the view that ascribed statuses are always fixed. For Linton a role is the set of behaviors associated with a status, and performing the role by doing the associated behaviors is the way in which a status is inhabited. Throughout this early period Linton became interested in the problem of acculturation, working with Robert Redfield and Melville Herskovits on a prestigious Social Science Research Council subcommittee of the Committee on Personality and Culture. The result was a seminal jointly-authored piece entitled Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation (1936). Linton also obtained money from the Works Progress Administration for students to produce work which studied acculturation. The volume Acculturation in Seven American Indian Tribes is an example of the work in this period, and Linton's contributions to the volume remain his most influential writings on acculturation. Linton's interest in culture and personality also expressed itself in the form of a seminar he organized with Abram Kardiner at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. References Ralph Linton on Encyclopædia Britannica. External links 100 Percent American—A well-known popular piece by Linton. Use of Tobacco among North American Indians at Gutenberg.org National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1893 births 1953 deaths 20th-century American anthropologists American Anthropologist editors United States Army personnel of World War I Columbia University alumni Columbia University faculty Harvard University alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Swarthmore College alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Works Progress Administration workers Yale Sterling Professors