Alex Inkele (1920-2010) was professor of sociology at Stanford University, USA, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. He was the editor of On Measuring Democracy and author of Exploring Individual Modernity, Becoming Modern, and What Is Sociology?

• Preface Acknowledgments Part I—General Orientation 1 National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural SystemsPart II—Delineating National Character:German, Russian, American 2 On the German Mind 3 Modal Personality and Adjustment to the Soviet Sociopolitical System 4 Continuity and Change in the American National CharacterPart III—National Character in Relation to Stability and Change in Sociocultural Systems 5 The Interaction of the Personal and the Sociocultural Systems 6 National Character and Modern Political Systems 7 Rising Expectations: Revolution, Evolution, or Devolution?Part IV—Multi-Nation Comparisons 8 National Differences in Individual Modernity 9 Personal Development and National Development:A Cross-National Perspective 10 Industrialization, Modernization, and The Quality of Life 11 National Character Revisited Index

Alex Inkele (1920-2010) was professor of sociology at Stanford University, USA, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. He was the editor of On Measuring Democracy and author of Exploring Individual Modernity, Becoming Modern, and What Is Sociology?

• Preface Acknowledgments Part I—General Orientation 1 National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural SystemsPart II—Delineating National Character:German, Russian, American 2 On the German Mind 3 Modal Personality and Adjustment to the Soviet Sociopolitical System 4 Continuity and Change in the American National CharacterPart III—National Character in Relation to Stability and Change in Sociocultural Systems 5 The Interaction of the Personal and the Sociocultural Systems 6 National Character and Modern Political Systems 7 Rising Expectations: Revolution, Evolution, or Devolution?Part IV—Multi-Nation Comparisons 8 National Differences in Individual Modernity 9 Personal Development and National Development:A Cross-National Perspective 10 Industrialization, Modernization, and The Quality of Life 11 National Character Revisited Index

Alex Inkele (1920-2010) was professor of sociology at Stanford University, USA, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. He was the editor of On Measuring Democracy and author of Exploring Individual Modernity, Becoming Modern, and What Is Sociology?

• Preface Acknowledgments Part I—General Orientation 1 National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural SystemsPart II—Delineating National Character:German, Russian, American 2 On the German Mind 3 Modal Personality and Adjustment to the Soviet Sociopolitical System 4 Continuity and Change in the American National CharacterPart III—National Character in Relation to Stability and Change in Sociocultural Systems 5 The Interaction of the Personal and the Sociocultural Systems 6 National Character and Modern Political Systems 7 Rising Expectations: Revolution, Evolution, or Devolution?Part IV—Multi-Nation Comparisons 8 National Differences in Individual Modernity 9 Personal Development and National Development:A Cross-National Perspective 10 Industrialization, Modernization, and The Quality of Life 11 National Character Revisited Index