In societies experiencing radical social change, do the effects of people's social positions on their personalities change? This book addresses this and related questions through a cross-national study of social structure and personality in stable societies, compared to former socialist societies during their transition to nascent capitalism.

In societies experiencing radical social change, do the effects of people's social positions on their personalities change or remain much the same? This book addresses this and related questions through an impressively rigorous cross-national study of social structure and personality in stable societies (the U.S., Poland when it was socialist, and Japan) compared to former socialist societies (Poland and Ukraine) during their transition to nascent capitalism.