Social Structure and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Ukraine

Does the relationship between social structure and personality during times of apparent social stability obtain as well under conditions of radical social change? There are good reasons to think that it might not. To find out, we conducted surveys in Poland and Ukraine during 1992-1993, with dramati...

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Published inAmerican sociological review Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 614 - 638
Main Authors Kohn, Melvin L., Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Janicka, Krystyna, Khmelko, Valeri, Mach, Bogdan W., Paniotto, Vladimir, Zaborowski, Wojciech, Gutierrez, Roberto, Heyman, Cory
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Sociological Association 01.08.1997
Subjects
CAPITALISM
Comparative analysis
Comparative Study
Comparison
Correlations
Cross-National Analyses
Factors
Hypotheses
Manual workers
Men
Personality
Poland
Post-communist societies
Postcommunist Societies
Psychology
Radical social change
Radicalism
Relationship
Social Change
Social change. Social innovation. Utopia
Social Class
Social Classes
Social conditions
Social organization. Social system. Social structure
Social research
Social Stratification
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Social structures
SOCIALISM
Society
Sociology
Stability
Ukraine
UNITED STATES, 1945 TO PRESENT
Urban Areas
Working women
Poland
Ukraine
Social Change
Nervous Breakdown
Individual
Individualism
Personality
Post-communism
Mental Health
Autonomy
Crossnational Comparisons
Freedom
Advanced Countries
Capitalism
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Summary:Does the relationship between social structure and personality during times of apparent social stability obtain as well under conditions of radical social change? There are good reasons to think that it might not. To find out, we conducted surveys in Poland and Ukraine during 1992-1993, with dramatic results. In those respects in which the socialist Poland of 1978 had shown a pattern of relationships similar to that of the capitalist United States and Japan (notably, the relationship of social structure to self-directedness of orientation), the pattern remains the same; but where socialist Poland in 1978 had differed from the United States and Japan (notably, in the relationship of social structure to a sense of distress), Poland now fully exemplifies the capitalist pattern. Ukraine seems to be following a similar trajectory, albeit at a slower pace.
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ISSN:0003-1224
1939-8271
DOI:10.2307/2657430