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1 online resource (ix, 124 pages) |
| Contents |
<P><span class="" data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">1. Hagerstown and Schizophrenia; 2. Social Stratification and Parent-Child Relations in Washington, DC; 3. The Torino Study; 4. Men Employed in Civilian Occupations in the United States; 5. The Transformation of the Occupations Study into a Longitudinal Analysis; 6. Life on Sabbatical Leave in Norway and at the National Institute of Mental Health; 7. Class, Stratification and Personality; 8. Poland under Communism; 9. Occupational Self-Direction and Distress in Poland; 10. The Vietnam War, Nixon and Me; 11. Japan; 12. Germany -- West and East; 13. Poland and Ukraine in Transition to Capitalism and Democracy; 14. The Presidency of the American Sociological Association, Ronald Reagan and My Job Switch; 15. My Two Exploratory Expeditions to China; 16. China in Transition to a Modern Economy; 17. Retirement, and My Last Sabbatical, at Deep Springs Junior College; 18. The Theory I Propose; Index.</span></p> |
| Summary |
In "The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality," Melvin Kohn reexamines his 60-year inquiry?conducted across distinct cultures under radically different conditions? into the relationship between people's location in the social order and their personality. Over the course of his career, Kohn and his collaborators used groundbreaking empirical methodologies to understand the effect of social structure on personality. Study after study demonstrated the primacy of social class and social stratification in determining people's values and orientations, and also revealed interesting cross-national inconsistencies in their reactions to similar social conditions. In this book, Kohn focuses on these inconsistencies and, based on insights derived from his final research in China, identifies political intervention as the force that modifies, for better or for worse, the dominant effect of class stratification and the opportunities they provide for self-direction at work on personality |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Social structure -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Social stability -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Social change -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Personality and situation -- Cross-cultural studies
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Personality and culture -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Personality and culture
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Personality and situation
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Social change -- Psychological aspects
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Social structure -- Psychological aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785270673 |
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1785270672 |
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9781785270680 |
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1785270680 |
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