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Alex Inkeles is currently professor of sociology, and by courtesy, education, at Stanford University He is also a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. He was formerly Margaret Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University; at Harvard University he served as professor of sociology and as director of studies on social and cultural aspects of development in the Center for International Affairs. He received his BA (1941) and MA (1946) from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1949).
The author of more than 112 articles in sociology and social psychology, his most recent books areBecoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries (with Smith 1974), which received the first Hadley Cantril Award; andExploring Individual Modernity (1983). Dr. Inkeles' current research is focused on convergent trends in the social organization and popular attitudes and values within sets of industrial and industrializing countries.
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Inkeles, A. Introduction: On measuring democracy. St Comp Int Dev 25, 3–6 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02716902
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02716902