Alex Inkeles was an American sociologist and social psychologist.
15 Facts About Alex Inkeles
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Alex Inkeles's career was mostly spent at Harvard University and Stanford University.
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Alex Inkeles was born on March 4,1920 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Alex Inkeles's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, though lived in a neighborhood that predominantly consisted of Sicilians.
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Alex Inkeles attended Cornell University for his bachelor's degree in 1941 and master's degree in 1946.
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Alex Inkeles spent World War II digging telephone poles for the US Army Signal Corps.
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Alex Inkeles later received orders from the Office of Strategic Services that reassigned him to reading Soviet newspapers and listening to Soviet radio due to his proficiency with Russian.
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Alex Inkeles authored Public Opinion in Soviet Russia in 1950 and The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society in 1961.
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Alex Inkeles became a full professor of sociology in 1957, remaining at Harvard until 1971.
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Alex Inkeles had a research fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1955 to 1956.
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Alex Inkeles was the founding editor of the Annual Review of Sociology, which was first published in 1975.
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Alex Inkeles remained editor through 1980, with Ralph H Turner as acting editor in 1978.
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Alex Inkeles was recognized by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962, the American Philosophical Society in 1972, and the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
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Alex Inkeles enjoyed traveling and viewing the visual and dramatic arts of different cultures.
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Alex Inkeles died in Palo Alto, California on July 9,2010, at the age of 90.