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Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.
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The author describes his sociological research over his six-decade career to develop a theory on the relationship between social structure and personality. He reviews all of the studies he has conducted, from the perspective of how they contribute to understanding the similarities and differences in the relationships of social structure and personality in the different countries he examined, including research conducted in Hagerstown, Maryland, on schizophrenia; social stratification and parent-child relations in Washington, DC; men in civil occupations in the US; Poland under communism; and studies conducted in Japan, Germany, Ukraine, China, and Italy. Distributed by Books International, Inc. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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