Social structure and self-direction : a comparative analysis of the United States and Poland
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Social structure and self-direction : a comparative analysis of the United States and Poland
Blackwell, 1993
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text presents the results of a major research project on the relationship between social structures and personal values in both capitalist and socialist societies. Based on original empirical work and using new and sophisticated cross-national methodologies, it gives a comparative interpretation of the links between social class and social stratification, working conditions and personality in the US and Poland. Melvin Kohn's earlier work "Class and Conformity" is commonly regarded as a classic in the field, providing an exploration of the causal connection between social stratification and values in terms of the close relationship between social stratification and the conditions of work that facilitate or restrict occupational self-direction. This new work aims to go beyond this, integrating an entire corpus of research and interpretation into a generalized model of the social structure and personality relationship in industrialized societies, demonstrating the key role of social class, and developing an innovative method for cross-rational comparative inquiry.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - a rationale for cross-national inquiry into the relationship of social structure and personality
- the methodology of the research
- social class and social stratification in capitalist and socialist societies
- class, stratification and psychological functioning
- occupational self-direction as a crucial explanatory link between social structure and personality
- issues of causal directionality in the relationships of class and stratification with occupational self-direction and psychological functioning
- social structure and the transmission of values in the family
- interpreting the cross-national differences
- a re-evaluation of the thesis and its implications for understanding the relationship between social structure and personality.
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