C. Wright Mills Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, among them The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the U.S. political, military, and economic elites; White Collar, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, where Mills proposes the proper relationship in sociological scholarship between biography and history. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated public and political engagement over uninterested observation. Mills biographer Daniel Geary writes that his writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s Biography[edit] C. Influences[edit] C. Books[edit] Legacy[edit] Outlook[edit] C.
Paul Lazarsfeld - Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (13 de Fevereiro de 1901, Viena, Áustria - 30 de Agosto de 1976, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos) Biografia[editar | editar código-fonte] Influências[editar | editar código-fonte] O pai de Lazarsfed, um advogado de classe média, era um socialista ativo e a casa dos Lazarfeld era um ponto de encontro de intelectuais e artistas de correntes políticas diversas como Max Adler, Victor Adler, Friedrich Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, os poetas Rilke, Stefan George e a educadora Eugenie Schwarzwald entre outros. O ambiente cultural em Viena durante a juventude de Paul Lazarsfeld era intenso e criativo. Nesta atmosfera rica em estímulos culturais e políticos diversos, Lazarsfeld formou seu interesse acadêmico interdisciplinar que o levou da Matemática pura à Sociologia, Psicologia e ao interesses pelos estudos sobre Meios de Comunicação. Doutoramento[editar | editar código-fonte] Universidade Princeton[editar | editar código-fonte]
Princeton Univ. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Robertson Hall, which houses the Woodrow Wilson School. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school grants undergraduate AB degrees, graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Public Policy (MPP) and Ph.D. degrees. Cecilia Rouse is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. History[edit] In 1930, Princeton established the School of Public and International Affairs, as it was originally named, in the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's interest in preparing students for leadership in public and international affairs. The School's initial venture was an interdisciplinary program for undergraduates in Princeton's liberal arts college. The phrase “Princeton in the Nation's Service” was the theme of two speeches Wilson gave at the University, first during its 150th anniversary celebration in 1896 and again at his inauguration as the University’s president in 1902. Today[edit] Robertson Hall[edit] Institutes[edit]
Ford Foundation New York headquarters The Ford Foundation is a New York headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.[3][4][5][6] Created in 1936[7] by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford.[8] By 1947, after the death of the two founders, the foundation owned 90 percent of the non-voting shares of the Ford Motor Company. (The Ford family kept the voting shares to themselves.)[9] Between 1955 and 1974, the foundation sold its Ford Motor Company holdings and now plays no role in the automobile company. For years, the foundation was the largest, and one of the most influential foundations in the world, with global reach and special interests in economic empowerment, education, human rights, democracy, the creative arts, and Third World development. History[edit] After the deaths of Edsel Ford in 1943 and Henry Ford in 1947, the presidency of the foundation fell to Edsel's eldest son, Henry Ford II.
Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.[1] She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, sometimes controversial, academic anthropologist.[2] Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.[3]:347–348 Birth, early family life, and education[edit] She studied with professor Franz Boas and Dr. Personal life[edit] Work[edit]
Radio Project The Radio Research Project was a social research project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to look into the effects of mass media on society. In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation started funding research to find the effects of new forms of mass media on society, especially radio. Several universities joined up and a headquarters was formed at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The following people were involved: Among the subjects of the Project's first studies were soap operas, known as radio dramas at the time. A third research project was that of listening habits. Theodor Adorno produced numerous reports on the effects of "atomized listening" which radio supported and of which he was highly critical.
Bureau of Applied Social Research The Bureau of Applied Social Research was a social research institute at Columbia University which specialised in mass communications research. It grew out of the Radio Research Project at Princeton University, beginning in 1937. The Bureau's first director was Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld. The bureau was closed in 1977, when its archives were merged into Columbia's Center for the Social Sciences which in turn became part of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy in 1999, which in turn became part of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy in 2001. Jump up ^ Biographical Memoirs.
Deutsche Hochschule für Politik The Deutsche Hochschule für Politik (DHfP), or German Academy for Politics, was a private academy in Berlin, founded in October 1920. It was integrated into the Faculty for Foreign Studies (Auslandswissenschaftliche Fakultät) of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 1940, was re-founded in 1948 and turned into the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin in 1959. Purpose[edit] The DHfP was to establish the elementary principles of a democratic community in Germany in a liberal spirit and thus help to strengthen the young Weimar Republic against anti-democratic tendencies. Sponsors or members of the founding board of trustees were amongst others Walter Simons, Ernst Jaeckh, Friedrich Naumann, Friedrich Meinecke, Max Weber, Hugo Preuß, Gertrud Bäumer and Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz. Weimar Republic[edit] Lectures and seminars for the first 120 students at first took place only in the evening, mostly with volunteer lecturers. Third Reich[edit] Post-war period[edit] Legacy[edit]
National Opinion Research Center NORC at the University of Chicago is one of the largest independent social research organizations in the United States, established in 1941. Its corporate headquarters is located on the University of Chicago campus, with offices in downtown Chicago Loop, Washington DC, and Bethesda, Maryland. History[edit] The organization was founded in 1941 as the National Opinion Research Center. Since its founding, NORC at the University of Chicago has conducted numerous social research projects involving opinion survey and other data collection, for government agencies, nonprofit agencies, and corporations. Data from surveys are also frequently analyzed in a wide range of social sciences, especially sociology. Clients[edit] NORC clients have included: Notable projects[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Official website Coordinates:
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (U of C, UChicago, or simply Chicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The university consists of the College of the University of Chicago, various graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees organized into four divisions, six professional schools, and a school of continuing education. The university enrolls approximately 5,000 students in the College and about 15,000 students overall. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the world's top 10 universities.[6][7][8] The university tied with Stanford University for 5th place in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities Rankings".[9] The University of Chicago is affiliated with 89 Nobel Laureates (including 10 current faculty),[15] 49 Rhodes Scholars[16] and 9 Fields Medalists.[17] It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. History[edit] Founding–1910s[edit]