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Kohn, Melvin L. was born on October 19, 1928 in New York City. Son of Albert and Rose Kohn.
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This book presents an intensive cross-national analysis of social structure and personality, testing the generality of the thesis that position in the larger social structure affects (and is affected by) personality largely because of the linkages between social-structural position with proximate conditions of life, and of proximate conditions of life with personality. Kohn and his collaborators have focused their research on two basic dimensions of social structure (class and stratification), the proximate conditions of life most directly related to class and stratification (job conditions), and three fundamental aspects of personality (intellectual flexibility, self-directedness of orientation, and feelings of well-being or distress). Their findings for the United States, then-socialist Poland, and Japan demonstrate remarkable cross-national similarities across cultures and economic systems, along with an intriguing cross-national difference between socialist Poland and the capitalist U.S. and Japan, in the relationships of class and stratification with job conditions and thus with personality during times of apparent social stability. Kohn then asks whether the cross-nationally consistent relationships could possibly survive the conditions of radical social change entailed in the transition of Poland and Ukraine from socialism to nascent capitalism, and whether the one major difference between socialist Poland and the capitalist countries would persist when Poland and Ukraine were no longer socialist. The cross-national similarities endure, despite social instability and, in Ukraine, even despite personality itself becoming astonishingly unstable; and the cross-national difference has disappeared with the transition from socialism to nascent capitalism.
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This book 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 an array of 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. The author's earlier work "Class and Conformity" is regarded by some as a classic in the field, providing an exploration of the casual connection between social stratification and values in terms of the close relationship between social stratification and the conditions of work that facilitate occupational self-direction. This new work goes far 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. The work is intended for students and teachers of sociology, social psychology, political science, social structure, social stratification, class, work, personality, sociological methodology and theory.
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This is a new edition of a book earlier published by Blackwell (1990-hardcover; 1993-paperback), now with a new foreword. The book presents the results of a major research project on the relationship between social structure and personality in both capitalist and socialist societies. Based on a formidable array of original empirical work and using sophisticated cross-national methodologies, it gives a profound comparative interpretation of the links between social class and social stratification, working conditions, and personality in the capitalist United States and Poland, then in the last period of a still functioning socialist regime.
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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 work that the job entails. The extent of parents' self-direction on the job further determines the value placed on self-direction for their children; thus, Kohn finds, is the most critical and pervasive factor distinguishing children raised in different socioeconomic classes.
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Kohn, Melvin L. was born on October 19, 1928 in New York City. Son of Albert and Rose Kohn.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, 2008.
Research fellow, Social Science Research Council, Ithaca, New York, 1951-1952;
research sociologist, Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1952-1960;
chief, Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, 1960-1985;
professor sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1985;
chair department sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1996-1999. Member science advisory board Max Planck Institute für Bildungsforschung, Berlin,1983-1990. Member Commision on Humanities and Social Sciences of America Academy Learned Society and Academy Sciences of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1987-1990.
Coordinator American Sociological Association-Soviet Sociological Association Symposia in Sociology, 1985-1990. Board directors American Sociological Foundation, 1987-1992, president, 1991-1992.
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With United States Public Health Service, 1952-1960. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts. and Sciences. Member American Sociological Association (president 1987, Cooley-Mead award 1992), International Sociological Association (executive committee 1982-1990), Eastern Sociological Society (president 1982-1983, Merit award 1994), Sociological Research Association (president 1978-1979), Polish Sociological Association (honorary), District of Columbia Sociological Society (Stuart A. Rice Merit award for career achievement 1996), Sociologists for Women in Society, Society for Study of Social Problems (vice president 1973-1974).
Married Janet Goldrich, October 3, 1952 (deceased January 2004).