Melvin L. Kohn

The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: First Hill Books
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781785270666
• ISBN-10: 1785270664
• Artikelnr.: 56536200

Autorenporträt

Melvin L. Kohn, professor emeritus of sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, USA, and former chair of NIH's Socio-environmental Studies Lab, has spent more than 60 years conducting ground-breaking cross-national research on the relationship between people's location in the social order and their behavior.

Inhaltsangabe

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.