This volume graphically demonstrates how diff erences in social
class aff ect personality. It does so by presenting research in
class character covering a broad range of phenomena in the area
shared by psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and anthropology.
Concerned with key issues of substance and method in this area, the
essays in Class and Personality in Society provide fi rsthand
experience in the divergent ways in which specialists view and
explore the relationship between personality and social status. Th
e material off ers a picture of how, out of controversy and
confusion, scholars and researchers can achieve order, clarity, and
sophistication.
The editor's extensive introductory essay provides frames of
reference from the social sciences pertinent to this aspect of
social psychology. It describes historic trends and suggests fresh
answers to controversial issues such as the nature of American
class structure, the contribution of psychoanalysis to
psychological research, and the relative importance, to
personality, of early training versus current circumstance. Calling
for more sociological awareness in psychological research, Grey
documents his views with specific examples. The discussion is
further enlivened by its pertinence to such current problems as the
culture of poverty and community psychiatry.
Class and Personality in Society was originally intended for use
in courses in Social Psychology and Culture and Personality, and in
sociology courses that discuss how social institutions and
processes are related to individual personality. It may also
provide stimulating supplemental reading in introductory psychology
or sociology course. It will also prove valuable to professionals
in specialized programs in clinical psychology and psychiatry
concentrating on community mental health.
Alan L. Grey was professor in the clinical psychology program of
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University.
Grey has also been on the staff of the William Alanson White
Institute of Psychoanalysis as a Research Coordinator and
Supervisor of Psychotherapy in the Blue Collar Treatment Program of
the Low Cost Clinic. He has published several articles in
professional journals, contributed to several books, and is editor
of Class and Personality in Society.
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