Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality

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.

• 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.