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According to Wikipedia, Alex Inkeles was an American sociologist and social psychologist. One of his main areas of research was the culture and society of the Soviet Union. His career was mostly spent at Harvard University and Stanford University. In addition to being the founding editor of the Annual Review of Sociology, some of his recognitions included membership in the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society.

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Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries (1976) (870)
The Effects of Democracy on Economic Growth and Inequality: A review (1990) (502)
Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries (1969) (397)
Annual Review of Sociology (1975) (282)
Industrial Man: The Relation of Status to Experience, Perception, and Value (1960) (239)
National Comparisons of Occupational Prestige (1956) (201)
Transitions to democracy (1991) (197)
The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity. (1966) (190)
Exploring Individual Modernity (1983) (189)
On measuring democracy : its consequences and concomitants (1991) (142)
Participant Citizenship in Six Developing Countries (1969) (127)
The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (1960) (124)
Measuring social capital and its consequences (2000) (113)
National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural Systems (2017) (112)
Social Structure and the Socialization of Competence (1966) (88)
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia: A Study in Mass Persuasion (1950) (79)
Social Stratification and Mobility in the Soviet Union: 1940-1950 (1950) (72)
The Fate of Personal Adjustment in the Process of Modernization (1970) (70)
One World Emerging?: Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies (1998) (66)
National Character: A Psycho-Social Perspective. (1997) (65)
How The Soviet System Works (1956) (64)
Modernization, modernity, and perceptions of aging: A cross-cultural study. (1975) (62)
Industrialization, Modernization and the Quality of Life (1993) (60)
Convergent and Divergent Trends in National Educational Systems (1983) (60)
Social Change and Social Character: The Role of Parental Mediation (1955) (47)
What Is Sociology? An Introduction to the Discipline and Profession (1964) (46)
Social change in Soviet Russia (1970) (46)
Public opinion in Soviet Russia (1950) (45)
The Emerging Social Structure of the World (1975) (44)
Education and individual modernity in developing countries (1977) (43)
National character : a psycho-social perspective (1997) (39)
The School as a Context for Modernization (1973) (38)
Comparing Nations and Cultures: Readings in a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective (1995) (38)
Some Social Psychological Effects and Noneffects of Literacy in a New Nation (1967) (36)
How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes. (1957) (35)
Modal Personality and Adjustment to the Soviet Socio-Political System (1958) (33)
Understanding and Misunderstanding Individual Modernity (1977) (28)
The Personal System and the Sociocultural System in Large-Scale Organizations (1963) (27)
Modernity and acceptance of family limitation in four developing countries. (1974) (26)
Stability and Social Change. (1972) (25)
Annual Review of Sociology: Vol. 1. (1977) (23)
Introduction: On measuring democracy (1990) (21)
National character revisited (1989) (21)
Multidimensional Ratings of Occupations (1957) (20)
Causes and Consequences of Individual Modernity in China (1997) (17)
National Differences in Scholastic Performance (1979) (16)
Critical Letters to the Editors of the Soviet Press: Areas and Modes of Complaint (1952) (15)
Sociology and Psychology. (1963) (14)
Soviet Society: a Book of Readings (1962) (13)
Continuity and Change in Popular Values on the Pacific Rim (1997) (13)
Understanding a Foreign Society: A Sociologist's View (1951) (12)
Critical Letters to the Editors of the Soviet Press: Social Characteristics and Interrelations of Critics and the Criticized (1953) (12)
An Approach to the Study of Psychosocial Maturity (1998) (11)
Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies (2019) (11)
CHAPTER 4. THE TOTALITARIAN MYSTIQUE: SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE DYNAMICS OF TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY (1954) (9)
Women, Men, and the Construction of Individual Modernity Scales in China (1994) (9)
The family in the U.S.S.R. (1954) (9)
CHAPTER 21. MODELS AND ISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF SOVIET SOCIETY (1968) (8)
INDIVIDUAL MODERNITY IN DIFFERENT ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS: DATA FROM A SIX‐NATION STUDY (1977) (7)
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT. (1968) (6)
Propaganda in War and Crisis: Materials for American Policy. (1951) (6)
How The Soviet System Works Cultural Psychological And Social Themes (2017) (6)
National Differences in Individual Modernity (2017) (5)
Continuity and Change in the American National Character (1980) (5)
International Communication and Political Opinion: A Guide to the Literature. (1957) (4)
Query: Whither the Social Sciences? Response: They Can't Get There from Here@@@A Quarter Century of International Social Science: Papers and Reports on Developments 1952-1977. (1981) (4)
12.Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction (1956) (4)
Readings on modern sociology (1966) (3)
The retirement decision in cross-national perspective (1988) (3)
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 6. (1981) (3)
Construction and validation of a cross-national scale of family modernism. (1974) (3)
One World Emerging? (2019) (3)
Soviet Reactions to the Voice of America (1952) (3)
Harvard Project on the Sociocultural Aspects of Development (1969) (3)
The Responsiveness of Family Patterns to Economic Change in the United States (1984) (2)
Individual Modernizing Experiences and Psycho-Social Modernity: Validation of the OM Scales in six Developing Countries (1975) (2)
How to Change a Culture. (1956) (2)
Alex Inkeles Comments on John Stephenson's "Is Everyone Going Modern" (1969) (2)
National Character and Modern Political Systems (2017) (2)
Why Dictators? The Causes and Forms of Tyrannical Rule Since 600 B.C. (1954) (2)
CHAPTER 6. MODAL PERSONALITY AND ADJUSTMENT TO THE SOVIET SOCIOPOLITICAL SYSTEM (1968) (2)
Personal Development and National Development: A Cross-National Perspective (2017) (2)
Modernization in India and Other Developing Countries (2019) (2)
10. Modernity and the Mass Media (1974) (2)
Domestic broadcasting in the U.S.S.R (1949) (2)
The Soviet Attack on the Voice of America: A Case Study in Propaganda Warfare (1953) (2)
Pattern for Soviet Youth: A Study of the Congresses of the Komsomol, 1918–1954 . By Ralph Talcott Fisher Jr., (New York: Columbia University Press. 1959. Pp. xiv, 452. $6.75.) (1959) (1)
SUMMARY AND REVIEW: SOCIAL STRATIFICATIONIN THE MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIA (1960) (1)
Marxism in the U.S.S.R.--The Recent Revival (1946) (1)
The Changing Soviet School: The Comparative Education Society Field Study in the U.S.S.R.George Z. F. Bereday, William W. Brickman , Gerald H. Read (1961) (1)
CHAPTER 17. THE SOVIET CHARACTERIZATION OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA (1968) (1)
Surveying postmaterialism (1998) (1)
Being Cooperative as a Form of Social Capital: Evidence from a National Sample of Japanese Adolescents (2000) (1)
CHAPTER 1. SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOVIET RUSSIA (1968) (1)
PSYCHOETHNOGRAPHY: The Impact of Russian Culture on Soviet Communism. Dinko Tomasic (1954) (1)
Freudian theory and sociological research. (1966) (1)
The New Liberty: Survival and Justice in a Changing World.Ralf Dahrendorf (1979) (1)
XVI. The Future of Soviet Society (1959) (1)
2. A Model of the Modern Man (1983) (1)
CHAPTER 8. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY IN THE SOVIET UNION (1968) (1)
The Russians don't hear (1951) (1)
Recent Developments Insoviet Mass Communications (1958) (1)
11. The Factory as a School in Modernity (1974) (0)
VI. Getting an Education (1959) (0)
2. LENINIST THEORY AND PUBLIC OPINION (1950) (0)
VII. Keeping Up with the News (1959) (0)
Educational System Development and Convergence: A Literature Review and Propositional Inventory. (1979) (0)
Appendix. Reports and Publications of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (1956) (0)
8 The Social Correlates of Individual Modernity (1974) (0)
III. Some Considerations of Method and Methodology (1959) (0)
15. THE ADMINISTRATION OF RADIOBROADCASTING (1950) (0)
National Character and National Stereotypes. vol. 1 of Confluence: Surveys of Research in the Social Sciences. H. C. J. Duijker and N. H. Frijda. Humanities Press, New York, 1961. xi + 238 pp. $4.50 (1961) (0)
The Interaction of the Personal and the Sociocultural Systems (2017) (0)
9. THE SOVIET CONCEPTION OF THE PRESS (1950) (0)
3. Forces Producing Individual Modernity: A Theory of Effects (1983) (0)
7. The Content of OM: The Concept of Individual Modernity Reexamined in the Light of Empirical Evidence (1974) (0)
The Soviet Social System (1957) (0)
1. THE STUDY OF MASS COMMUNICATION (1950) (0)
CHAPTER 9. NATIONAL COMPARISONS OF OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE (1968) (0)
CHAPTER 18. THE SOVIET RESPONSE TO THE VOICE OF AMERICA: A CASE STUDY IN PROPAGANDA WARFARE (1968) (0)
Inherited Personality?: National Character and National Stereotypes . vol. 1 of Confluence: Surveys of Research in the Social Sciences. H. C. J. Duijker and N. H. Frijda. Humanities Press, New York, 1961. xi + 238 pp. $4.50. (1961) (0)
14. PUBLIC CONTROL, SELF-CRITICISM, AND THE PRESS (1950) (0)
25.Some Forecasts by the Authors (1956) (0)
V. Making a Living (1959) (0)
Modernization and Family Patterns (2019) (0)
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2.A Brief Review of the Formal Characteristics of the System (1956) (0)
Studying the World System (1979) (0)
CHAPTER 3. FIFTY YEARS OF THE SOVIET REVOLUTION (1968) (0)
Less than a Riddle (1951) (0)
Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 6, 1980. (1980) (0)
Appendix B. OM-12: The Short Form (1974) (0)
XV. The Nationality Problem (1959) (0)
21. Summary and Conclusions on the Social Significance of Individual Modernization (1974) (0)
16. Rural Versus Urban Origin (1974) (0)
19.The Peasants (1956) (0)
20.The Workers (1956) (0)
A century of Procedural Due Process Guarantees in Constitutions Worldwide (1993) (0)
14. Urban Nonindustrial Employment (1974) (0)
2. Toward a Definition of The Modern Man (1974) (0)
3. THE ADMINISTRATION OF PROPAGANDA AND AGITATION (1950) (0)
8. ORAL AGITATION AND THE SOVIET SYSTEM (1950) (0)
In Memoriam: Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn 1905-1960 (1961) (0)
17. PROGRAM POLICY AND THE CONTENT OF SOVIET BROADCASTS (1950) (0)
CHAPTER 16. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA AND COUNTERPROPAGANDA (1968) (0)
Individual Modernizing Experiences and Psycho-Social Modernity : Validation of the OM Scales in six Developing Countries (1975) (0)
4.Planning and Controlling (1956) (0)
7. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL AGITATION POLICY (1950) (0)
CHAPTER 10. MULTIDIMENSIONAL RATINGS OF OCCUPATIONS (1968) (0)
Were the Soviet Union and the United States Converging? (2019) (0)
5. THE BOLSHEVIK AGITATOR (1950) (0)
Images of Class Relations Among Former Soviet Citizens (1956) (0)
18. THE RADIO AUDIENCE IN THE U.S.S.R. (1950) (0)
Book Review:Social Mobility in Industrial Society. Seymour Martin Lipset, Reinhard Bendix (1959) (0)
Patterned Responses to Industrial Life (2019) (0)
14. The Modernization of Man in Communist Countries (1983) (0)
Bennington College Calendar of Events, Spring 1962 (1962) (0)
IATSS SYMPOSIUM ON TRAFFIC SCIENCE 1980. MAN AND A HIGH SPEED SOCIETY, SEPTEMBER 18-20, 1980, TOKYO, REPORTS (1980) (0)
20. A NOTE IN CONCLUSION (1950) (0)
The Soviet System. Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (1960) (0)
IX. Patterns of Family Life: The Inner Family (1959) (0)
Letters to the editor (1972) (0)
The Inequality of Nations (1979) (0)
On the German “Mind” (2017) (0)
Book Review:The Soviet 1956 Statistical Handbook: A Commentary. Naum Jasny (1958) (0)
19. THE SOVIET FILM INDUSTRY (1950) (0)
Social Stratification: National Comparisons of Occupational Prestige (2019) (0)
Becoming Modern (2019) (0)
Raw Data for the Culturally Hungry. (1957) (0)
XIII. Social Class Cleavage (1959) (0)
I. The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (1959) (0)
5.Problem Solving, the Overcommitment of Resources, and "Storming" (1956) (0)
Books in review (1993) (0)
Volume Information (1968) (0)
Appendix D. Migration and Individual Modernity (1974) (0)
10. THE STRUCTURE OF A PLANNED PRESS (1950) (0)
XII. The Problem of Loyalty in Soviet Society (1959) (0)
11. THE FUNCTIONS AND CONTENT OF THE PRESS (1950) (0)
Rising Expectations: Revolution, Evolution, or Devolution? (2017) (0)
Books in review (1988) (0)
XIV. Political Cleavage in the Soviet Union: Popular Images of the Party and the Secret Police (1959) (0)
4. Creating and Validating the Modernity Scale (1983) (0)
CHAPTER 7. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIA (1968) (0)
14.Attitudes Toward the West (1956) (0)
II. The Sample (1959) (0)
The Emerging Structure of World Society (2019) (0)
16. BROADCASTING AND RADIO RECEPTION IN THE U.S.S.R. (1950) (0)
17.The Ruling Elite (1956) (0)
18.The Intelligentsia (1956) (0)
A Response to Mullins and Wilson@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 1.@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 2.@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 3. (1979) (0)
21.Generational Differences (1956) (0)
X. The Sources of Support: Popular Values and Aspirations (1959) (0)
Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 5, 1979. (1979) (0)
CHAPTER 20. RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES: A PROBLEM IN COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY (1968) (0)
7. Terror and Forced Labor (1956) (0)
13. CENSORSHIP AND SUPERVISION OF THE PRESS (1950) (0)
CHAPTER 2. THE CHALLENGE OF A STABLE RUSSIA (1968) (0)
12. Factory Modernity (1974) (0)
24.Some Evaluations by the Authors (1956) (0)
VIII. Patterns of Family Life$ Getting Under Way (1959) (0)
Appendix E. The Match Control Table (1974) (0)
A Statement Presented to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, by Alex Inkeles, 18 feb. 1958 (1958) (0)
16.Political Loyalty of Individuals (1956) (0)
13. The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives (1974) (0)
CHAPTER 15. CRITICAL LETTERS TO THE SOVIET PRESS (1968) (0)
XI. Sources of Hostility and Disaffection (1959) (0)
6. THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL PARTY ORGANIZATION (1950) (0)
11.Soviet Policy Toward the Individual (1956) (0)
3. The Research Design and Sample Structure (1974) (0)
15.Some Aspects of Russian National Character (1956) (0)
The Fire-Bird's Tail Feathers (1951) (0)
10.Caution at Major Risks in Foreign Affairs (1956) (0)
17. Home and School Background (1974) (0)
Introduction (1973) (0)
CHAPTER 12. SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL CHARACTER: THE ROLE OF PARENTAL MEDIATION (1968) (0)
12. EDITORS AND WRITERS OF THE SOVIET PRESS (1950) (0)
9.Rigidity-Flexibility (1956) (0)
4. The Conduct of The Fieldwork (1974) (0)
13.Attitudes Toward the Soviet System (1956) (0)
Communication: Linking the Whole Human Race (2019) (0)
Appendix A. The Questionnaire (1974) (0)
15. The Quantity and Quality of Urban Experience (1974) (0)
19. An Overview: The Relative and Total Impact of the Explanatory Variables (1974) (0)
Causes and consequences of individual modernity in China [An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 1995.] (1997) (0)
5. Two Case Studies (1974) (0)
8.Informal Adjustive Mechanisms (1956) (0)
GARELIK, JOSEPH. A Soviet City and Its People. Pp. 96. New York: Interna tional Publishers, 1950. $1.25 (1951) (0)
IV. Occupational Stratification and Mobility (1959) (0)
11. The Intellectual Consequences of Federal Support for the Social Sciences (1986) (0)
National Character and Social Structure: Comments on Glaser (1949) (0)
1.The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, and Its Data (1956) (0)
The Annual Model?@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 1.@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 2.@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 3. (1979) (0)
6. Indian Images of Modernity in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1983) (0)
4. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: THE SCHOOLING OF OPINION LEADERS (1950) (0)
Convergence and Divergence in Educational Systems (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 11. FAMILY AND CHURCH IN POSTWAR U.S.S.R. (1968) (0)
6. Constructing the OM Scale: An Overall Measure of Modernity (1974) (0)
3.Creating and Maintaining Myths (1956) (0)
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 5. (1981) (0)
American National Character (1992) (0)
Industrialization, Modernization, and the Quality of Life (2019) (0)
20. The Process of Individual Modernization (1974) (0)
The Soviet Subject Viewed as Citizen (1960) (0)
18. The Behavioral Manifestations of Individual Modernity (1974) (0)
Cross-National Comparison of Student-to-Teacher Ratios: An Example in Convergence Theory. (1979) (0)
6.Refusal to Allow Independent Concentrations of Power (1956) (0)
A Century of Due Process Guarantees Worldwide (2019) (0)
22.Nationality Groups (1956) (0)
CHAPTER 5. IMAGES OF CLASS RELATIONS AMONG FORMER SOVIET CITIZENS (1968) (0)
Sociology Stanislav Andreski. The Uses of Comparative Sociology. Pp. x, 383. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965. $6.50 (1966) (0)
A Review of Reviews@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 1.@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 2.@@@Annual Review of Sociology, vol 3. (1979) (0)
On Measuring Democracy: Its Consequences and Concomitants: Conference Papers (2017) (0)
The Generalist Meets the China Specialist (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 13. SOVIET NATIONALITY POLICY IN PERSPECTIVE (1968) (0)
The Challenge of a Stable Russia (1958) (0)
CHAPTER 19. THE SOVIET SOCIAL SYSTEM: MODEL FOR ASIA ? (1968) (0)
Appendix C. The Set A Variables (1974) (0)
Developments of Sociometry, the War Years 1941-1945 (1946) (0)
CHAPTER 14. DEVELOPMENTS IN SOVIET MASS COMMUNICATIONS (1968) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1961) (0)
Family and Church in the Postwar U. S. S. R (1949) (0)

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