Alex Inkeles

Alex Inkeles (March 4, 1920 – July 9, 2010) was an American sociologist and social psychologist. His main areas of research were national character and the culture and society of the Soviet Union. Quotes There is substantial evidence, over a wide attitudinal and experimental range, that perceptions, opinions and values are systematically ordered in modern societies....Modern society...is more or less unique in the extent to which it produces standardized contexts of experience. "Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries", American Journal of Sociology, vol. 75, no. 2 (September 1969) p. 2. Reported in O. W. Markley and Willis W. Harman (eds.) Changing Images of Man (Pergamon Press, 1982) ch. 3, p. 57 External links Category:1920 births Category:2010 births Category:Sociologists from the United States Category:Psychologists from the United States Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Stanford University faculty Category:Harvard University faculty Category:People from Brooklyn Category:Jews from the United States Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences