| LC control no. | n 79082169 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lazarsfeld, Paul F., 1901-1976 |
| Variant(s) | Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix |
| Associated country | Austria United States |
| Birth date | 1901-02-13 |
| Death date | 1976-08-30 |
| Place of birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Affiliation | University of Newark Columbia University Columbia University. Bureau of Applied Social Research American Sociological Association |
| Profession or occupation | Sociologist |
| Found in | Statistisches praktikum für psychologen und lehrer, 1929: title page (Dr. Paul F. Lazarsfeld) An introduction to applied sociology, 1975: title page (Paul F. Lazarsfeld) 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) 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) 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> |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
