Paul lazerfield biography

LAZARSFELD, PAUL F. (–), U.S. sociologist.

Paul lazerfield biography

Born in Vienna in , Lazarsfeld studied mathematics and psychology at the University of Vienna and came to the United States in on a Rockefeller fellowship. He became a director of the Research Center at the University of Newark in , and director of the newly established office of Radio Research at the University of Princeton in After he was professor and chairman of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, where he remained until In addition, he was president of the American Sociological Association.

In Lazarsfeld became director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia, a pioneering venture that has become the model for a number of similar research institutes at American universities. The published works of Lazarsfeld and his collaborators deal with public opinion research, and generally with quantitative research and its techniques.

Latent structure analysis, which was developed by Lazarsfeld a