Background

Bales, Robert Freed was born on March 9, 1916 in Ellington, Missouri, United States. Son of Columbus Lee and Ada Lois (Sloan) Bales.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University Oregon, 1938; Master of Sciences, University Oregon, 1941; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1945.

Career

Research associate section on alcohol studies, Yale University, 1944-1945; instructor sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1945-1947; assistant professor sociology, research associate Laboratory Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947-1951; lecturer sociology, research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951-1955; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955-1957; professor social relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957-1986; professor emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1986; director Laboratory Social Rels., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960-1967; chairman social psychology program, department psychology and social relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-1982; consultant psychology, Harvard University Health Superior vena cava syndrome, 1970-1982. Visiting lecturer sociology and social psychology University of Michigan, summer 1949, Columbia University, summer 1950. Lecturer Salzberg Austria Seminar of America Studies, summer 1952, 56.

Member of the board science counsellors National Institute of Mental Health, 1957-1960.

Achievements

• Robert Freed Bales has been listed as a noteworthy Social psychologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Social Interaction Systems: Theory and Measurement

    ( Social Interaction Systems is the culmination of a hal...)

  • Family: Socialization and Interaction Process (International Library of Sociology)

    (First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)

  • Working Papers in the Theory of Action

    (Sociology)

  • Symlog, A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups

    (good book)

  • The "fixation factor" in alcohol addiction: An hypothesis derived from a comparative study of Irish and Jewish social norms (Dissertations on sociology)
  • Interaction process analysis: A method for the study of small groups
  • Social Interaction Systems: Theory and Measurement by Bales, Robert Freed (1999) Hardcover
  • Symlog Case Study Kit
  • Symlog: A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups
  • Symlog, A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups by Robert Freed Bales, Stephen P. Cohen (1979) Hardcover
  • Symlog, A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups by Robert Freed Bales (1979-10-01)

Membership

Trustee Ella L. Cabot Trust. Member of Boston Psychoanalytic Society (affiliate), Society Experimental Social Psychology, American Psychological Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Eastern Sociological Society (president 1962-1963), American Sociological Association, American Psychological Association (Outstanding Contribution to Leadership and Organizational Excellence award California chapter division of I/O psychology 1999, Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession award California chapter 2001).

Connections

Married Dorothy Louise Johnson, September 14, 1941.

Father:

Columbus Lee Bales

Mother:

Ada Lois (Sloan) Bales

Spouse:

Dorothy Louise Johnson