Paul Lazarsfeld

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901 – August 30, 1976) was an Austrian-American sociologist. 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."[1] Lazarsfeld said that his goal was "to produce Paul Lazarsfelds".[2]^: 3 He was a founding figure in 20th-century empirical sociology.[3]

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Paul Lazarsfeld
Paul Lazarsfeld at age 40
Born	Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1901-02-13)February 13, 1901 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	August 30, 1976(1976-08-30) (aged 75) Newark, New Jersey, US
Nationality	Austrian American
Spouses	Marie Jahoda ​ ​ (m. 1926; div. 1934)​ Herta Herzog (div. 1945) Patricia Kendall [fr] (m. 1949)
Children	Lotte Bailyn Robert Lazarsfeld
Parents	Robert Lazarsfeld Sophie Lazarsfeld
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna (PhD, 1925)
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Sub-discipline	Mathematical sociology
Institutions	Columbia University
Doctoral students	James Samuel Coleman
Notable ideas	Limited effects theory narcotizing dysfunction two-step flow of communication model
Influenced	Barney Glaser Elihu Katz C. Wright Mills