Paul F Lazarsfeld: 5 books
Personal Influence
The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
First published in 1955, "Personal Influence" reports the results of a pioneering study conducted in Decatur, Illinois, validating Paul Lazarsfeld's serendipitous discovery that messages from the media may be further mediated by informal "opinion leaders" who intercept, interpret,...
Sociologia n.2/2017
Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2017
La società e la storia NICOLA ANTONETTI Prefazione. “Sociologia” una cultura per la democrazia ANDREA BIXIO Introduzione Sturzo e la tradizione storica LUIGI STURZO La Sociologia GABRIELE DE ROSA Il tempo e l'opera di Luigi Sturzo PIETRO SCOPPOLA Intellettuali in una società in trasformazione:...
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
Marienthal
The Sociography of an Unemployed Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus...
Some recent trends in United States methodology and general sociology
Published in Sociologia n. 2/2017. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Un contributo dell’Istituto Luigi Sturzo alla rinascita della Sociologia in Italia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Because the amount of research and publication in the United States is much too vast to permit a thorough review in one session, two topics have been selected for each of the two areas assigned to this reporter: methodology and general sociology.