Paul Lazarsfeld
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-American sociologist and mathematician. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research. "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague said of him after his death, "as it was that he determined what American sociology would be." Lazarsfeld said that his goal was "to produce Paul Lazarsfelds".
Background
- Born in
- Vienna
- Educated at
- University of ViennaAkademisches Gymnasium
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Vienna🏆 Fellow of the American Statistical Association🏆 honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Robert Zerner
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 James Samuel Coleman📖 Peter H. Rossi
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Timeline
1901
Born
Birth1976
Died
Death
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