Melvin L Kohn

Change and Stability

A Cross-national Analysis of Social Structure and Personality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In societies experiencing radical social change, do the effects of people's social positions on their personalities change or remain much the same? This book addresses this and related questions through an impressively rigorous cross-national study of social structure and personality in stable societies (the U.S., Poland when it was socialist, and Japan) compared to former socialist societies (Poland and Ukraine) during their transition to nascent capitalism. Kohn tests his incisive interpretation of the relationships between position in the larger social structures of class and stratification and job conditions and personality. Initially developed and tested in a longitudinal study of men employed in civilian occupations in the United States, the interpretation is systematically tested and enlarged in studies in Japan (to see whether it applies to a non-Western industrialized society) and in Poland when it was socialist (to see whether it applies to the social and economic system of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe). Then, with the demise of the Soviet Union, the comparisons are extended to both men and women, whether or not employed, in the urban areas of Poland and Ukraine during their transition to nascent capitalism (to see whether the interpretation applies to the entire urban populations of these countries, even under conditions of radical social change). Despite personality being highly unstable during the process of radical social change in Ukraine from 1992 to 1996, the relationships of social structure and personality remain remarkably stable and consistent with those of countries studied during times of much greater social stability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781594511752
• ISBN-10: 1594511756
• Artikelnr.: 22228368

Autorenporträt

Melvin L. Kohn

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Social Structure and Personality under Conditions of Apparent Social Stability: The United States
Japan
and Poland
2. Doing Social Research under Conditions of Radical Social Change: The Biography of an Ongoing Research Project
3. Rationale and Research Design for the Comparative Study of Poland and Ukraine under Conditions of Radical Social Change
4. Class
Stratification
and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Ukraine
5. Extending the Analysis to the Nonemployed: Part 1. Complexity of Activities and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change
6. Extending the Analysis to the Nonemployed: Part 2. Structural Location and Personality during the Transformation of Poland and Ukraine
7. Social Structure and Personality during the Process of Radical Social Change: A Study of Ukraine in Transition
8. Reflections
Appendix: My Two Visits to My Mother's Village: A Glimpse at Social Change in Rural Ukraine
References
Index
About the Author