Social structure and self-direction: a comparative analysis of the United States and Poland

Abstract

Introduction - a rationale for cross-national inquiry into the relationship of social structure and personality the methodology of the research social class and social stratification in capitalist and socialist societies class, stratification and psychological functioning occupational self-direction as a crucial explanatory link between social structure and personality issues of causal directionality in the relationships of class and stratification with occupational self-direction and psychological functioning social structure and the transmission of values in the family interpreting the cross-national differences a re-evaluation of the thesis and its implications for understanding the relationship between social structure and personality.