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Paul Lazarsfeld

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Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901 – August 30, 1976) 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". He was a founding figure in 20th-century empirical sociology.

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This system gained an undue attention because it was made the instrument of a socialist propaganda under the leadership of Ferdinand Lassalle.(151) This active leader, in 1863, founded the German “Workingmen’s Union,” a year earlier than the “International(152) Association.” In 1869 Liebknecht and his friends established the “Social Democratic Workingmen’s Party,” which after some difficulties absorbed the followers…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
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_The ABC of Relativity_ _The Analysis of Matter_ _Human Society in Ethics and Politics_ _The Impact of Science on Society_ _New Hopes for a Changing World_ _Authority and the Individual_ _Human Knowledge_ _History of Western Philosophy_ _The Principles of Mathematics_ _Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy_ _The Analysis of Mind_ _Our Knowledge of the External World_ _An Outline of Philosophy_ _The Philosophy of…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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We take a part for a whole, a means for an end; or we attack wholesale some interest because it interferes with the deified sway of the one we have selected as ultimate. A clear and comprehensive consensus of social conviction and a consequent concentrated and economical direction of effort are assured only as there is some way of locating the position and rôle of each typical interest and occupation. The domain of…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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Philosophers who discussed Paul Lazarsfeld

Theodor W. Adorno

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Robert K. Merton

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Part of Positivism.

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