Research Catalog

Title

Social structure and personality; a casebook.

Author

Cohen, Yehudi A.

Publication

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1961]

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Details

Description

528 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Collection of papers, including paper by W. Lloyd Warner separately annotated.

Subject

• Personality
• Socialization
• Personality [MESH]
• Socialization [MESH]
• Personality
• Socialization
• Magic and sorcery > Clever people
• Psychology
• Kultur
• Persönlichkeit
• Sozialisation
• Socialisatie (sociale wetenschappen)
• Persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling
• Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Sect. I. Some concepts and definitions. Ch. 1. A question of approach : I. Theoretical -- Ch. 2. A question of approach : II. Applied. The personality of the Kaingang Indians / Jules Henry -- Peasantry and gentry : an interpretation of Chinese social structure and its changes -- Sect. II. Social structure and socialization. Ch. 3. Family status and socialization. The socialization of the negro child in the border and Southern states / E. Franklin Frazier -- Socialization and social class through time and space / Urie Bronfenbrenner -- Middle-class fathers' occupational role and attitudes toward children / David F. Aberle and Kaspar D. Naegele -- Ch. 4. Family isolation and socialization. Structure and function : family organization and socialization in a Jamaican community / Yehud A. Cohen -- Warriors without weapons / Gordon MacGregor -- Ch. 5. Changes over time in socialization practices. Changes in American practices -- The emergency of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- Cultural transmission and cultural chanes / Edward M. Bruner -- Changes in Russian practices -- Modal personality and adjustment to the Soviety socio-political system / Alex Inkeles, Eugenia Hanfmann, and Helein Beir -- Social change and social character : the role of parental mediation / Alex Inkeles -- Ch. 6. Aggression, fantasy, and adolescence. Family organization and aggression -- Children of the Cumberland / Claudia Lewis -- Family and fantasy -- Children and ritual in Bali / Margaret Mead -- Adolescence -- Adolescent conflict in a Jamaican community / Yehudi A. Cohen -- Sect. III. If the shoe fits : the dependence of institutions on personality processes. Ch. 7. Occupations and professions. The professions -- The executive functions / Chester I. Barnard -- The business executive : the psychodynamics of a social role / William E. Henry -- A psychological study of eminent psychologiest and anthropologists, and a comparison with biological and physical scientists / Anne Roe
• Ch. 8. Institutional integrations. Military structure -- American character as revealed by the military / George D. Spindler -- Caste structure -- Negro adaptation : a psychodynamic analysis / Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey -- Legal systems -- Principles of Yurok law / A. L. Kroeber -- The restoration of breaches of the law among the Bantu / Gunter Wagner -- Ch. 9. Total social systems. The psychosocial analysis of a Hopi life history / David F. Aberle -- The Teton-Dakota Indians / Gordon MacGregor -- Sect. IV. Effects of community systems on personality. Ch. 10. World view. Ethos and cultural aspects of personality / John Gillin -- The world and the world view of the Kota / David G. Mandelbaum -- Ch. 11. Food and its vicissitudes : a cross-cultural study of sharing and nonsharing / Yehudi A. Cohen -- Ch. 12. Patterns of friendship / Yehudi A. Cohen -- Sect. V. Social change, acculturation, and personality. Ch. 13. Values in personality : acculturation and assimilation. Achievement, culture and personality : the case of the Japanese Americans / William Caudill and George de Vos -- The Polish American / R. A. Schermerhorn -- Ch. 14. Values in personality : nature's experiments. Ojibwa personality and acculturation / A. Irvin Hallowell -- Menomini acculturation / George D. Spindler -- Sect. VI. The sociological conditions of personal disorganization. Ch. 15. Social structure and psychosis. A crisis in Tikopia / Raymond Firth -- Psychosis -- "Arctic hysteria" and Latah in Mongolia / David F. Aberle -- Three social variables and the occurrence of mental disorder / Eleanor Leacock -- The sociological relevance of schizophrenia and depression -- Ch. 16. Psychosis and social-structural relationships. Effects of decreased variation in the sensory environment / W. H. Bexton, W. Heron, and T. H. Scott -- Black magic in Australia / W. Lloyd Warner -- Magical fright / John Gillin -- Withc-fear among the Aivilik Eskimos / Edmund S. Carpenter.

ISBN

• 0030106052
• 9780030106057
• 0214980111
• 9780214980114

LCCN

61006169

OCLC

• ocm01119080
• 1119080
• SCSB-2050002

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library