Background
Rokeach, Milton was born on December 27, 1918 in Hrubieszow, Poland. Came to the United States, 1926. Son of Lejb and Hanna (Mischne) Rokeach.
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2015 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Based on intensive studies this work probes deeply into the nature of prejudice and dogmatic thinking. In so doing, it sheds light on the processes by which man constructs and organizes his systems of belief and on the relation between an individual's patterns of belief and his underlying personality structure. It follows in the tradition of "Escape from Freedom" and "The Authoritarian Personality."
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On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves “confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.” -
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psychology and communications educator
Rokeach, Milton was born on December 27, 1918 in Hrubieszow, Poland. Came to the United States, 1926. Son of Lejb and Hanna (Mischne) Rokeach.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1941; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1947; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Paris (Nanterre), 1984.
He taught at Michigan State University, the University of Western Ontario, Washington State University, and the University of Southern California. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Rokeach as the 85th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. After graduation from Brooklyn College, Rokeach received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1947.
Rokeach conducted a well-known experiment in which he observed the interaction of three mentally ill patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital - each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ - from 1959-1961.
The book he wrote about the experiment, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, was subsequently adapted into a screenplay, a stage play, and two operas. Rokeach also conducted a mid-20th century study in the American South in which he tried to determine the basis for racial prejudice.
He found racial prejudice to be inversely related to socio-economic status, and thus concluded that such bias is used in an attempt to elevate one"s own status. His book, and the Rokeach Value Survey (see values scales), which the book served as the test manual for, occupied the final years of his career.
This theory led to a series of experiments in which changes in values led to measurable changes in opinion for an entire small city in the state of Washington.
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In it, he posited that a relatively few "terminal human values" are the internal reference points that all people use to formulate attitudes and opinions, and that by measuring the "relative ranking" of these values one could predict a wide variety of behavior, including political affiliation and religious belief.
Served to staff sergeant United States Air Force, 1942-1945. Fellow American Psychological Association, International Society for Political Psychology, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Muriel Weiner, October 10, 1942 (divorced July 1968). Children: Miriam Hanna, Martin David, Ruth Sylvia. Married Sandra Jean Ball, December 15, 1969.