Alex Inkele
Biographic Data
| ID | 745180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Inkele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Inkele |
| SIGNATURE | INKELE A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 354 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Surveying postmaterialism
Surveying Postmaterialism Alex Inkeles (bio) Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. By Ronald Inglehart. Princeton University Press, 1997. 454 pp. From his base at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, Ronald Inglehart has carried out a series of investigations "for analyzing the influence of mass publics on political and social life" that are unrivaled in their combine…
National Character: A Psycho-Social Perspective
Women, Men, and the Construction of Individual Modernity Scales in China
The authors' research explores the applicability of Inkeles and Smith's individual modernity paradigm to women and men in the People's Republic of China. The authors' analysis of questionnaire data demonstrates that, for the Chinese male respondents, individ ual modernity scales can be constructed that are highly reliable and that are essentially the same in structure and content as the overall modernity scales created for the (exclusively male) …
National Character Revisited
In the first edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology published in 1954 D. J. Levinson and I sought to define the field of national character research as "the study of modal personality and sociocultural systems". While acknowledging the legitimacy of deriving national character from the institutional or cultural forms shared by a population or from the behavior of their nation in acts such as war, peace and commerce, we urged that "national …
Transitions to democracy
The Responsiveness of Family Patterns to Economic Change in the United States
In « Continuity and Change in the American National Character », I described the striking degree of continuity in the core values held by Americans since the early days of the nation, despite massive changes in the size and composition of the U.S. population, its level of education, its patterns of residence and its forms of work. (Inkeles, 1979). Subsequently, when I was invited by the Tocqueville Society to write on modernization and the family…
Convergent and Divergent Trends in National Educational Systems
We here undertake a systematic assessment of whether and how far the educational systems of nations are becoming more alike. The elements of educational systems may conveniently be grouped into the Ideational and Legal, Structural, Demographic, Administrative and Financial, and Dynamic realms. For each of these realms we review the evidence with regard to a number of specific dimensions, presenting both historical and contemporary data to assess …
The New Liberty: Survival and Justice in a Changing World.Ralf Dahrendorf
Understanding and Misunderstanding Individual Modernity
A number of issues have arisen from the publication of Becoming Modern by Inkeles and Smith. This paper raises each issue in turn and attempts to support the major assertions of that study. Included are the reasons for studying the individual, the role of personality characteristics, the personal features of modernity, the universality and empirical status of the concept, some sources of individual modernity, relationships between modernity, stre…
Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
The Emerging Social Structure of the World
An assessment of the forms in which, and tlie extent to which, the population of the entire world may be coming to participate in a coherent global social system may be made by crude measurement of variations in the degree of autarky, interconnectedness, dependence, interdependence, integration, hegemony, and convergence. In the recent modern era, we can show that interconnectedness has been rising at an exponential rate across numerous dimension…
Becoming Modern
Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
Stability and Social Change
Social Change in Soviet Russia
Social Change in Soviet Russia
Participant Citizenship in Six Developing Countries
In this paper I will endeavor to do the following: (1) test how far certain concepts dealing with individual orientations to politics, previously used in studies of relatively advanced European societies, are appropriate to populations in developing countries; (2) ascertain how far these separate dimensions of individual political orientation cohere as a syndrome, indicating the existence of a general underlying dimension of "participant citizens…
Harvard Project on the Sociocultural Aspects of Development
Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
The Project on the Social and Cultural Aspects of Economic Development at Harvard's Center for International Affairs interviewed 6,000 men from six developing countries to study the impact on the individual of his exposure to and participation in the process of national and economic modernization. To a striking degree, the same syndrome of attitudes, values, and ways of acting-such as openness to new experience, independence from parental authori…
Ideology and Organization in Communist China
Some Social Psychological Effects and Noneffects of Literacy in a New Nation
Readings on Modern Sociology
What is Sociology? An Introduction to the Discipline and Profession
Soviet Society: A Book of Readings
Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
The Project on the Social and Cultural Aspects of Economic Development at Harvard's Center for International Affairs interviewed 6,000 men from six developing countries to study the impact on the individual of his exposure to and participation in the process of national and economic modernization. To a striking degree, the same syndrome of attitudes, values, and ways of acting-such as openness to new experience, independence from parental authori…
Industrial Man: The Relation of Status to Experience, Perception, and Value
Perceptions, attitudes, and values relating to a wide range of situations are shown to be systematically ordered in modern societies. The average proportion of persons holding a particular view may be dintinctive of a given country, but within all modern societies the order or structure of response is the same, following the typical status ladders of occupation, income, and education. The findings support the theory that the standard institutiona…
Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
The Emerging Social Structure of the World
An assessment of the forms in which, and tlie extent to which, the population of the entire world may be coming to participate in a coherent global social system may be made by crude measurement of variations in the degree of autarky, interconnectedness, dependence, interdependence, integration, hegemony, and convergence. In the recent modern era, we can show that interconnectedness has been rising at an exponential rate across numerous dimension…
National Comparisons of Occupational Prestige
The prestige accorded by popular opinion to comparable occupations is compared in six industrialized countries: Unites States, Great Britain, New Zealand, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Germany. High correlations are found, indicating that the occupations are ranked in a relatively standard hierarchy, despite the cultural differencs among the six nations. An interpretation is offered in terms of the universal features of the …
Social Stratification and Mobility in the Soviet Union: 1940-1950
Participant Citizenship in Six Developing Countries
In this paper I will endeavor to do the following: (1) test how far certain concepts dealing with individual orientations to politics, previously used in studies of relatively advanced European societies, are appropriate to populations in developing countries; (2) ascertain how far these separate dimensions of individual political orientation cohere as a syndrome, indicating the existence of a general underlying dimension of "participant citizens…
How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia: A Study in Mass Persuasion
National Character Revisited
In the first edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology published in 1954 D. J. Levinson and I sought to define the field of national character research as "the study of modal personality and sociocultural systems". While acknowledging the legitimacy of deriving national character from the institutional or cultural forms shared by a population or from the behavior of their nation in acts such as war, peace and commerce, we urged that "national …
National Character: A Psycho-Social Perspective
Some Social Psychological Effects and Noneffects of Literacy in a New Nation
Understanding a Foreign Society: A Sociologist's View
The scheduling of a joint section meeting of the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Society on “The Understanding of a Foreign Culture” may be taken as evidence that American social scientists feel the study of foreign societies to be a problem of increasing concern. It may perhaps also indicate that they are not fully satisfied with the progress made to date. Since this is a period given to radical innovations i…
Understanding and Misunderstanding Individual Modernity
A number of issues have arisen from the publication of Becoming Modern by Inkeles and Smith. This paper raises each issue in turn and attempts to support the major assertions of that study. Included are the reasons for studying the individual, the role of personality characteristics, the personal features of modernity, the universality and empirical status of the concept, some sources of individual modernity, relationships between modernity, stre…
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia; A Study in Mass Persuasion
Soviet Attitudes toward Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character
This book is a survey, on different levels, of the nature of Soviet leadership. An intensive study was made of Soviet newspapers, professional journals, movies, and records of Party Congresses, and selected interviews were carried out with emigres of different periods
What is Sociology? An Introduction to the Discipline and Profession
Critical Letters to the Editors of the Soviet Press: Social Characteristics and Interrelations of Critics and the Criticized
Convergent and Divergent Trends in National Educational Systems
We here undertake a systematic assessment of whether and how far the educational systems of nations are becoming more alike. The elements of educational systems may conveniently be grouped into the Ideational and Legal, Structural, Demographic, Administrative and Financial, and Dynamic realms. For each of these realms we review the evidence with regard to a number of specific dimensions, presenting both historical and contemporary data to assess …
The Soviet Citizen. Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society
Critical Letters to the Editors of the Soviet Press: Areas and Modes of Complaint
ingfully related, with high participation families tending to belong to both fringe and city organizations, and low participation families tending to belong only to fringe or only to city organizations. (6) Neither extent nor location of formal associational activities appear to be critical factors in the general adjustment of fringe residents to location in the rural-urban fringe. However, the tendency toward a positive though non-significant re…
Women, Men, and the Construction of Individual Modernity Scales in China
The authors' research explores the applicability of Inkeles and Smith's individual modernity paradigm to women and men in the People's Republic of China. The authors' analysis of questionnaire data demonstrates that, for the Chinese male respondents, individ ual modernity scales can be constructed that are highly reliable and that are essentially the same in structure and content as the overall modernity scales created for the (exclusively male) …
The Responsiveness of Family Patterns to Economic Change in the United States
In « Continuity and Change in the American National Character », I described the striking degree of continuity in the core values held by Americans since the early days of the nation, despite massive changes in the size and composition of the U.S. population, its level of education, its patterns of residence and its forms of work. (Inkeles, 1979). Subsequently, when I was invited by the Tocqueville Society to write on modernization and the family…
Social Change in Soviet Russia
Propaganda in War and Crisis: Materials for American Policy
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia: A Study in Mass Persuasion
Social Stratification and Mobility in the Soviet Union: 1940-1950
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia; A Study in Mass Persuasion
Understanding a Foreign Society: A Sociologist's View
The scheduling of a joint section meeting of the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Society on “The Understanding of a Foreign Culture” may be taken as evidence that American social scientists feel the study of foreign societies to be a problem of increasing concern. It may perhaps also indicate that they are not fully satisfied with the progress made to date. Since this is a period given to radical innovations i…
Propaganda in War and Crisis: Materials for American Policy
Soviet Attitudes toward Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character
This book is a survey, on different levels, of the nature of Soviet leadership. An intensive study was made of Soviet newspapers, professional journals, movies, and records of Party Congresses, and selected interviews were carried out with emigres of different periods
Critical Letters to the Editors of the Soviet Press: Areas and Modes of Complaint
ingfully related, with high participation families tending to belong to both fringe and city organizations, and low participation families tending to belong only to fringe or only to city organizations. (6) Neither extent nor location of formal associational activities appear to be critical factors in the general adjustment of fringe residents to location in the rural-urban fringe. However, the tendency toward a positive though non-significant re…
Soviet Reactions to the Voice of America
Analysis of references of the Voice of America in Soviet media helps to throw light on the reactions of Communist officialdom to this government's broadcasts. The rationale of such research is further discussed in the article by Paul Massing (pp. 618-622 of this issue). The author is a lecturer in social relations at Harvard University and Director of Research on the Soviet Social System at the Russian Research Center at the same university
Critical Letters to the Editors of the Soviet Press: Social Characteristics and Interrelations of Critics and the Criticized
Why Dictators? The Causes and Forms of Tyrannical Rule Since 600 B.C
Psychoethnography: The Impact of Russian Culture on Soviet Communism. Dinko Tomasic
The Appeals of Communism
National Comparisons of Occupational Prestige
The prestige accorded by popular opinion to comparable occupations is compared in six industrialized countries: Unites States, Great Britain, New Zealand, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Germany. High correlations are found, indicating that the occupations are ranked in a relatively standard hierarchy, despite the cultural differencs among the six nations. An interpretation is offered in terms of the universal features of the …
How the Soviet System Works
How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes
The Soviet 1956 Statistical Handbook: A Commentary. Naum Jasny
Social Mobility in Industrial Society.Seymour Martin Lipset , Reinhard Bendix
The Soviet Citizen. Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society
The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society
Industrial Man: The Relation of Status to Experience, Perception, and Value
Perceptions, attitudes, and values relating to a wide range of situations are shown to be systematically ordered in modern societies. The average proportion of persons holding a particular view may be dintinctive of a given country, but within all modern societies the order or structure of response is the same, following the typical status ladders of occupation, income, and education. The findings support the theory that the standard institutiona…
In Memoriam: Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn 1905-1960
Soviet Society: A Book of Readings
What is Sociology? An Introduction to the Discipline and Profession
Readings on Modern Sociology
Some Social Psychological Effects and Noneffects of Literacy in a New Nation
Sociology (36 works) · Political science (33 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)