Paul Lazarsfeld

The first of these is status conferral function or the way that the ‘mass media confer status on public issues persons organizations and social movements’. He had a son Robert Lazarsfeld now a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan who publiPaul Lazarsfeldd Positivity in Algebraic Geometry (Springer) in 2004. The final section of the paper considers a topic of great salience in the post-World War II period propaganda for social objectives.

"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. Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13 1901 – August 30 1976) was one of the major figures in 20th-century American sociology. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research he exerted a tremendous influence over the techniques and the organization of social research.