Melvin Lester Kohn (October 19, 1928 – March 19, 2021) was an American sociologist and past president of the American Sociological Association. He was a professor at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

and conducted research on

social structure In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally rel ...

and

personality Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that are formed from biological and environmental factors, and which change over time. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, m ...

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1928 births 2021 deaths American sociologists Johns Hopkins University faculty Presidents of the American Sociological Association {{US-sociologist-stub