Social Structure and Personality: A Quintessentially Sociological Approach to Social Psychology
Author(s)
Kohn, Melvin L.
Abstract
Social psychology is insufficiently sociological: it is too narrowly concerned with the immediately impinging interpersonal environment, too little concerned with larger social structures. The pivotal contribution that sociology can make to social psychology is to explicate the processes by which people’s positions in larger social structures affect the conditions of their lives and, thereby, their personalities and behavior.
