1st Edition

Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology

By Hynek Jeřábek Copyright 2025
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European postwar sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld’s inventions and his methodological, organisational, and institutional innovations, it describes the means by which a particular model of sociology was... Read more

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Chapter 1: Lazarsfeld’s Methodological Innovations

Chapter 2: Lazarsfeld’s ‘Training Projects’ and His Methodological Publications – the Role of the PPAT Project (1952–1955)

Chapter 3: Lazarsfeld in Norway: The Story of the Active Promotion of Lazarsfeld’s Methodology in Norway (1947–1955)

Chapter 4: Lazarsfeld in Poland: Lazarsfeld’s Activities and Influence in Postwar Poland (1958–1970)

Chapter 5: Lazarsfeld in Austria: Lazarsfeld’s Promotion of Empirical Sociology in Postwar Austria (1958–1976)

Chapter 6: Lazarsfeld in France: How Empirical Social Research Gained Ascendancy in Postwar France (1948–1976)

Chapter 7: Lazarsfeld and UNESCO: Lazarsfeld’s European Influence with the Support of UNESCO (1948–1973)

Chapter 8: Lazarsfeld in the Czech Part of Czechoslovakia: A Specific Example of the Advancement of the Lazarsfeldian Methodology of Empirical Social Research (1965–1973)

Chapter 9: Lazarsfeld’s Contributions to the History of Empirical Social Research (1959–1973)

Conclusion

Index

 

 

Biography

Hynek Jeřábek is Professor at the Institute of Sociological Studies at Charles University, Czech Republic.