Milton Rokeach

Milton Rokeach (* December 27 1918 in Hrubieszów, Poland, † October 25, 1988 in Los Angeles ) was a professor of social psychology at Michigan State University, and later at Washington State University. There he worked in a composite Department of Sociology and Psychology.

Life

Rokeach received his Ph.D at the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 His most famous works are " The Open and Closed Mind" (1960 ). " Beliefs, Attitudes and Values ​​: A Theory of Organization and Change" (1968) and " The Nature of Human Values ​​" (1973). He is considered one of the most important pioneers and representative of Behavioralism, a strictly individualistic approach to research within political science. In 1984, Milton Rokeach of " Kurt Lewin Memorial Award of the American Psychological Association " was awarded.

Based on his book of 1973 he founded the Rokeach Value Survey, to which he devoted the last years of his career. In it, he assumes that a relatively limited number of terminal Human Values ​​, for all men are the internal reference points from which they formulate their attitudes and opinions and give reasons. By measuring the preference orderings of these important settings using survey methods, it is therefore possible a wide range of political behaviors, such as political groupings and religion to explain and predict.

In 1959 conducted by Rokeach experiment in Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti (Michigan), in which the behavior of three mentally ill patients has been documented, who were convinced of Jesus Christ was to be known. His book The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, was subsequently adapted for a screenplay, a stage play and two operas.

Important works

  • The Open and Closed Mind: investigations into the nature of belief systems and personality systems, Basic Books, 1960
  • Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values ​​: a theory of organization and change, Jossey -Bass, 1968
  • The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Knopf, 1964
  • The Nature of Human Values ​​, Free Press, 1973
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