How empirical social research gained ascendancy in post-war France

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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Z227CrnZCT" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Z227CrnZCT</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2021.044" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2021.044</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How empirical social research gained ascendancy in post-war France
Original language description
Sociology changed significantly in Europe after the Second World War. An interest in research with practical applications began to prevail. This article explains how this transformation came about in France and what contributed to the change. Sociologists at the Sorbonne were the first to actively support the use of an empirical approach in the social sciences. In this connection they invited Paul Lazarsfeld, one of the founders of the Columbia School of Sociology, to spend a year at the Sorbonne in 1962. Drawing on archive sources, this article reveals the factors that lay behind the creation of an original three-volume anthology of methodological writings that was the outcome of collaboration between Lazarsfeld and Raymond Boudon. They compiled this anthology in French with the aim of promoting this new paradigm to social scientists in France. The article examines the structure of this French methodology textbook, analyses the thematic orientation of the articles and notes jointly authored work by French and American scholars. On a second sabbatical at the Sorbonne in 1967 Lazarsfeld followed up on this publishing activity and further pursued his primary interest - the methodology of data analysis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-13807S" target="_blank" >GA18-13807S: Paul Lazarsfeld’s methodology and its applications in political sociology and communications studies (1950-1976)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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