Where Is Social Structure in Personality Research?

@article{Cortina2012WhereIS,
  title={Where Is Social Structure in Personality Research?},
  author={Lilia M. Cortina and Nicola Curtin and Abigail J. Stewart},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={2012},
  volume={36},
  pages={259 - 273}
}
For decades, feminist scholars have argued that to understand a person’s behavior, one must understand not only that individual but also the social structure in which she or he is embedded. Has psychology heeded these calls? The authors investigated this question using the subfield of personality as an exemplar. Based on a systematic analysis of publication trends in nine prominent journals, the authors found that social-structural analyses rarely appear in highly cited journals specifically… 
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