“[My goal] is to produce Paul Lazarsfelds.”
Attributed to Lazarsfeld in: Everett Rogers, (1994). A History of Communication Study: A Biological Approach. NY: The Free Press. p. 3.
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, né à Vienne le 13 février 1901 et mort le 30 août 1976, est un sociologue américain d'origine autrichienne. Il est particulièrement connu pour l'importance de ses travaux sur les effets des médias sur la société et pour l'utilisation de techniques d'enquêtes pour la collecte d'information, mais aussi pour sa contribution au développement de la sociologie électorale. Wikipedia
“[My goal] is to produce Paul Lazarsfelds.”
Attributed to Lazarsfeld in: Everett Rogers, (1994). A History of Communication Study: A Biological Approach. NY: The Free Press. p. 3.
“I have always stressed that methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.”
Paul Lazarsfeld (10/ 5/67), in: Ann K. Pasanella (1994), The Mind Traveller: A Guide to Paul F. Lazarsfeld's Communicating Research Papers. p. 22
“Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness."”
Paul Lazarsfeld, "The American Soldier — An Expository Review", Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 13, no. 3, (1949) pp. 377-404 at p. 380; About the interpretation of results in social science as obvious.
Paul Lazarsfeld, "Introduction to the original edition," in: Norman Jacobs, Mass Media in Modern Society. (1992), p. 40
“In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt: it breeds votes.”
Paul Lazarsfeld, cited in: The English Digest; Vol. 57, 1958, p. 34