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Lazarsfeld, Paul F., 1901-1976


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  • Fuller Name

    • Paul Felix

  • Variants

    • Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix

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    • Birth Date

        1901-02-13

    • Death Date

        1976-08-30

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: University of Newark

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1940
        • Affiliation End: 1969
        • Organization: Columbia University

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Columbia University. Bureau of Applied Social Research

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: American Sociological Association

    • Birth Place

        Vienna, Austria

    • Associated Locale

        Austria

    • Associated Locale

        United States

    • Occupation

      Sociologist

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      • Earlier Established Forms

        • Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix

      • Sources

        • found: Statistisches praktikum für psychologen und lehrer, 1929:title page (Dr. Paul F. Lazarsfeld)
        • found: An introduction to applied sociology, 1975:title page (Paul F. Lazarsfeld)
        • found: The varied sociology of Paul F. Lazarsfeld, 1982:CIP (Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix) page 1 (as a sociologist, Lazarsfeld was responsible for: the transformation of opinion polling into survey research; the initiation of survey panel methods; the initiation of systematic audience, mass communications, and market research; the initiation of survey methods in the study of political activity; the development of modern mathematical sociology; and the invention of university-based organizations for large-scale applied social research)
        • found: American Sociological Association, via WWW, September 6, 2012(Paul Felix Lazarsfeld; Paul F. Lazarsfeld was born in Vienna, Austria on February 13, 1901, the son of Robert Lazarsfeld, a lawyer, and Sofie Munk, a psychotherapist; he earned a doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Vienna in 1925; Lazarsfeld's true interests soon became the development of social research methodology and the establishment of institutes for training and research in the social sciences; in 1933 Lazarsfeld moved to the United States for a Rockefeller Fellowship; at the University of Newark he established a small social research center; when his project was moved to Columbia University in 1940, Lazarsfeld went with it, remaining at Columbia until his retirement in 1969; Lazarsfeld was elected to serve as the 52nd President of the American Sociological Association; he died August 30, 1976)
        • found: Wikipedia, via WWW, September 6, 2012(Paul Lazarsfeld; Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901-August 30, 1976) was one of the major figures in 20th-century American sociology; the founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted a tremendous influence over the techniques and the organization of social research) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld

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      • Change Notes

        • 1979-09-28: new
        • 2023-09-09: revised

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