Book
Soviet attitudes toward authority: an interdisciplinary approach to problems of Soviet character
McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. • New York • Published In 1951 • Pages: vi, 148
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study brings together a set of hypotheses on aspects of the social psychology of leadership in the Soviet Union, with particular attention to conceptions of the self. The analysis proceeds from constructs of character structure, and Soviet premises concerning morality and moral accountability, to a general statement of the theory and practice of the functions of a leader. Illustrative instances from all levels of the Party and non-Party hierarchy are given. The appendix contains summary statements on: discipline in child-rearing by E. Calas; the theoretical basis of the relation between Party and non-Party agencies in Soviet industrial management by L. H. Haimson; and the Czechoslovak one-party election of 1948 by David Rodnick.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Personality traits
- Ethics
- Social control
- Administrative agencies
- Exploitation
- Political parties
- Liability
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Fred Adelman ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1928-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Soviet Union
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Mead
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51012890
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Communism--Soviet Union
- Soviet Union--Civilization
- Soviet Union--Social conditions