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Department of Sociology records, 1910s-1998
2.58 linear feetThis collection consists of the administrative records of the Department of Sociology such as departmental meeting minutes and correspondence. Included are a number of publications from Paul Felix Lazarsfeld's interest in quantifying methodologies for social research. There are also two boxes of index cards kept by department with information about former graduate students.
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld papers, 1930-1976
75500 itemsCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, technical reports, memoranda, questionnaires, interview schedules, personal and professional documents, several photographs, one tape recording, and printed materials. The correspondence files contain letters to colleagues and researchers such as Bernard Berelson, Robert Lynd, Robert Merton, and Frank Stanton. The subject files document Lazarsfeld's many research projects such as the Admissions Officers Project, 1964-1970, the Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research, 1950-1955, and his first major endeavor, the Princeton Radio Research Project, 1937-1940. There are complete records for his 1954-1955 study on McCarthyism's effect on college teaching. These original materials consisting of correspondence, interview schedules, and questionnaires contain many detailed comments which could not be included in the published version of this study, THE ACADEMIC MIND (1958). Numerous files relate to Lazarsfeld's position as Associate Director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research (BASR). There are manuscripts of books, research papers, lectures, and articles by Lazarsfeld as well as by his students and colleagues.
Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research (Folders 1-22) Box 24
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- Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research (Folders 1-22)
Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research(Folders 23-35) Box 25
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- Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research(Folders 23-35)
Levenson, B. - Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research: Panel Analysis Workbook (Draft), Jan. 1955 Box 60, Folder 4.2
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- Levenson, B. - Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research: Panel Analysis Workbook
Bureau of Applied Social Research records, 1938-1977
168 Linear FeetProject materials, including reports, monographs, books, articles, Masters essays, Doctoral dissertations, foreign publications, administrative records, correspondence, minutes and audio-visual materials.
Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research, 1950-1958 Box 29 &30, Folder b-0420
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- Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research
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[B-0420-1 This is concerned with the problems of training in empirical social research. It proposes to establish the institute as a significant step towards a more adequate training program. B-0420-2 The Effects of Training in Social Research on the Development of Professional Attitudes," Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1954. B-0420-3 This paper is an attempt to formalize Merton's theoretical reflections. Merton's analysis of homophily with regard to racial attitudes is presented followed by a formalization of this analysis. B-0420-4 This paper briefly sketches a model of a research procedure and then explores in detail the general procedure followed at the last stages of an investigation. B-0420-5 This is a collection of examples from the history of higher education where innovations in advanced learning were proposed and either adopted or defeated. The purpose was to obtain information on the conditions under which new institutions become necessary, on how ideas develop into concrete plans, and on the forces that aid or hinder these plans. B-0420-6 This discussion of panel methods for the investigation of attitudes, and other manifestations of social change, is an attempt to organize some of the major studies and techniques into a consistent developing framework. B-0420-7 This is a collection of documents dealing with specification of concepts, formal structure of individual and group characteristics, multi-dimensional classification, attribute space, and derived problems. Case material on specific sociological and economic concepts and specific concepts in social psychology and the measurement of change over time are also discussed. B-0420-8 This is a collection of documents from the Dartmouth Seminar on Concepts and Indices, July 11-25, 1953. Part I: Organization and Basic Themes; Part II: Documentation of the Leading Themes; Part II, A: From Imagery to Index-A Schematic Sequence, Part II, B: The Basic Operational Problems; Part III: Additional Case Materials and Reports. B-0420-9 This is a collection of various papers from the Seminar on Social Process Analysis. Reports are: "Methods of Panel Analysis"; "Mutual Effects of Statistical Variables"; "Methodology of Repeated Interview Analysis"; "Notes on Impact Analysis"; "Seminar Discussion of the Relation of Panel and Experiment"; "Notes on Models for a Common Type of Attitude Process"; The Multi-Wave Panel as a Quasi-Experiment"; "Uniformities in the Voting Process"; "Formalization of McPhee's Model." B-0420-10 This report evaluates the in-service training program of the Bureau. It describes the general position of the program in the overall organization, the methods of obtaining trainees, the actual processes of training and the problems uncovered. B-0420-11 Panel analysis is a research technique, a method of collecting information about individuals and studying one major class of change. This is a workbook intended to acquaint students with a variety of panel materials and to furnish them with experience in analyzing and experimenting with such data. Many solved problems are included. B-0420-12 This report on the use of case materials and case analysis in American professional training attempts to define what constitutes such materials, and to consider how they may best be analyzed, by a comparative study of several areas in which there has actually occurred use of some such materials and of some adapted educational techniques. Reports: B-0420-1 through B-0420-12 Books: Hyman 1955, Lazarsfeld & Rosenberg 1955, Komarovsky 1957, Wright 1980 (Published dissertation) Articles: Lazarsfeld & Barton 1951, Barton & Lazarsfeld 1955, Lazarsfeld 1956 (1), Lipset & Trow 1957, Lowenthal & Fiske 1957, Planck 1957, Coleman 1970 Dissertations: Wright 1954, Gilliam 1959, Levenson 1966]
Dartmouth Seminar on Social Process, July 3-16, 1954 Box 150
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- [Anonymous B0420-9. Planning Project For Advanced training in Social Research]
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[Anonymous B0420-9. Planning Project For Advanced training in Social Research]
President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University (Macmahon Report), 1936-1958
15.42 linear feetThis collection consists of the records of the President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University. The committee files consists of correspondence, planning documents, questionnaires, and other studies. The "non-committee" records contain an extensive library of reports and background materials, both created at Columbia and at other schools. Finally, there are drafts, revisions and final copies of the Macmahon Report.
Social Science Research, 1955-1956 2 folders Box 7, Folder 18-19
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- Training in Social Research; Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research: Organization, Plan
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Training for Social Science Research by Charles R. Wright; Proposal to Establish an Institute for Training in Social Research; Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research: Organization, Plan of Work, and Present State of the Project.