Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979

LC control no.	n 79107832
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Berelson, Barney, 1912-1979 Berelson, B. (Bernard), 1912-1979 Bereruson, Bānādo, 1912-1979
Birth date	1912
Death date	1979
Place of birth	Spokane, Wash.
Affiliation	Columbia University University of Chicago Stanford University American Academy of Arts and Sciences Population Council
Profession or occupation	Behavioral scientist
Found in	Waples, D. What reading does to people. His Berelson on population, c1988: p. vi (Bernard Berelson, 1912-1979) p. vii (Barney Berelson) OCLC, June 26, 2006 (hdg.: Berelson, Bernard; usage: B. Berelson, Bānādo Bereruson) Elmira community study, 1948: title page (Bernard R. Berelson) Wikipedia, via WWW, September 6, 2012 (Bernard Berelson; Bernard Reuben Berelson (1912-1979) was an American behavioral scientist, known for work on communication and mass media; he was a leading proponent of the broad idea of the "behavioral sciences," a field he saw as including areas such as public opinion; he was born in Spokane, Washington; he majored in English at Whitman College, graduating in 1934; he took a library science degree at the University of Washington in 1936, and an English master's there in 1937; a doctoral degree in the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago, under the influence of Douglas Waples and completed in 1941, led him into the field of public opinion; from 1944 he worked in applied social research at Columbia University; he returned to Chicago in 1946, and in 1952 became head of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences set up by the Ford Foundation at Stanford University; he moved back to Chicago in 1957 and to Columbia in 1960; he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962; the same year, he joined the Population Council, eventually becoming its President)