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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. Stud...

First published in 1969 and augmented by the author with a new essay in 1977, "Class and Conformity" remains a model of sociological craftsmanship. Kohn's work marshals evidence from three studies to show a decided connection between social class and values. He emphasizes that occupation fosters either self-direction or conformity in people, depending upon the amount of freedom from supervision, the complexity of the task, and the variety of w...

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 nas...