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The Varied Sociology of Paul F. Lazarsfeld

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By: Paul Felix Lazarsfeld,Patricia L. Kendall

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The Varied Sociology of Paul F. Lazarsfeld

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By: Paul Felix Lazarsfeld,Patricia L. Kendall

An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers -- and the colonization of Taiwan itself -- exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and political identities. This carefully researched work of fiction draws upon Li's own experiences and family history, as well as oral and written histories of the era. Originally published in Chinese as a trilogy, this newly translated edition is an abridgement for English-speaking readers and marks the work's first appearance in the English-speaking world. It was well-received in Taiwan as an honest -- and influential -- recreation of Taiwan's history before the relocation of the Republic of China from the mainland to Taiwan. Because Li's saga is so deeply imbued with the unique culture and complex history of Taiwan, an introduction explaining the cultural and historical background of the novel is included to help orient the reader to this amazingly rich cultural context. This informative introduction and the sweeping saga of the novel itself together provide an important view of Taiwan's little known colonial experience.

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0231051220

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9780231051224

Personal Influence

The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications

By: Elihu Katz,Paul F. Lazarsfeld,Elmo Roper

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Personal Influence

The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications

By: Elihu Katz,Paul F. Lazarsfeld,Elmo Roper

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, and diffuse what they see and hear to the personal networks in which they are embedded. This classic volume set the stage for all subsequent studies of the interaction of mass media and interpersonal influence in the making of everyday decisions in public affairs, fashion, movie-going, and consumer behavior. The contextualizing essay in Part One dwells on the surprising relevance of primary groups to the flow of mass communication. Peter Simonson of the University of Pittsburgh has written that "Personal Influence was perhaps the most influential book in mass communication research of the postwar era, and it remains a signal text with historic significance and ongoing reverberations...more than any other single work, it solidified what came to be known as the dominant paradigm in the field, which later researchers were compelled either to cast off or build upon." In his introduction to this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Elihu Katz discusses the theory and methodology that underlie the Decatur study and evaluates the legacy of his coauthor and mentor, Paul F. Lazarsfeld.

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385

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Routledge

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1351500198

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9781351500197

On Social Research and Its Language

By: Paul F. Lazarsfeld

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On Social Research and Its Language

By: Paul F. Lazarsfeld

The eighteen essays in On Social Research and Its Language illustrate the diversity of Lazarsfeld's substantive, methodological, and organizational interests. Spanning the years 1933 to 1972, they encompass his own works of social research, as well as writings on methodology and the history and sociology of social research. Articles on methodology--observing, classifying and building typologies, analyzing the relations between variables, qualitative analysis, and macrosociology--form the bulk of the book. In addition, Raymond Boudon provides a revealing biography of Lazarsfeld and his influence on sociology.--Publisher description.

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352

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University of Chicago Press

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0226469611

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9780226469614

Marienthal

The Sociography of an Unemployed Community

By: Marie Jahoda,Paul F. Lazarsfeld,Hans Zeisel

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Marienthal

The Sociography of an Unemployed Community

By: Marie Jahoda,Paul F. Lazarsfeld,Hans Zeisel

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 of all subsequent discussions." So begin the opening remarks to the English-language edition of what has become a major classic in the literature of social stratification.

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122

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1351506978

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9781351506977

On Social Research and Its Language

By: Paul F. Lazarsfeld

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By: Paul F. Lazarsfeld

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The World the Game Theorists Made

By: Paul Erickson

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The World the Game Theorists Made

By: Paul Erickson

Today, game theory is central to our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and much more. Both the social and biological sciences have seemingly fused around the game. Yet the ascendancy of game theory and theories of rational choice more generally remains a rich source of misunderstanding. To gain a better grasp of the widespread dispersion of game theory and the mathematics of rational choice, Paul Erickson uncovers its history during the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern s seminal "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" in 1944 and the theory s revival in economics in the 1980s. "The World the Game Theorists Made "reveals how the mathematics of rational choice was a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging debate on some of the great issues of the time. Because it so actively persists in the sciences and public life, assessing the significance of game theory for the postwar sciences is especially critical now.

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University of Chicago Press

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022609717X

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9780226097176

Book's by Paul F. Lazarsfeld

The Varied Sociology of Paul F. Lazarsfeld

The Varied Sociology of Paul F. Lazarsfeld

Personal Influence

Personal Influence

On Social Research and Its Language

On Social Research and Its Language

Marienthal

Marienthal

On Social Research and Its Language

On Social Research and Its Language

The World the Game Theorists Made

The World the Game Theorists Made

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