Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld

Summers, John

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“…Este último desconstrói criticamente a pesquisa de Mills sobre os imigrantes porto-riquenhos nos Estados Unidos, identificando alguns elementos de sua visão estereotipada sobre a América Latina. Por fim, seria indispensável informar que John H. Summers (2006;2007;2008a;2008b) realizou investigações exaustivas de caráter historiográfico sobre dimensões particulares da trajetória intelectual de Mills, nas quais se destaca o balanço bibliográfico até agora mais completo de sua fortuna crítica, sendo também responsável por compilações de textos do autor (SUMMERS, 2008c), alguns dos quais artigos de jornais de difícil acesso e, por isso, quase inteiramente inéditos. O terceiro conjunto de textos sobre Mills, que aqui completaria a presente classificação preliminar de sua fortuna crítica, não constitui propriamente um momento novo, mas uma divisão temática por assuntos mais específicos de suas áreas de pesquisa ou relativa a passagens decisivas de seu itinerário acadêmico e político.…”

Section: A Sociologia Pragmatista De Wright Mills E Sua Fortuna Críticaunclassified

Wright Mills e a sociologia do conhecimento: pragmatismo e interacionismo simbólico

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O sociólogo norte-americano C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) é geralmente conhecido pelos seus estudos sobre estratificação social, elites, classes médias, líderes sindicais e a estrutura de poder nos Estados Unidos. A sua produção teórica de caráter sociológico e de fortes afinidades com a reflexão filosóficafoi pouco debatida aqui no Brasil. No entanto, o início de sua trajetória acadêmica se caracteriza justamente por um trabalho de cunho epistemológico no campo da sociologia do conhecimento, a tese de doutorado defendida em 1942 sob o título A sociological account of pragmatism: an essay on thesociology of knowledge. O propósito do presente artigo será o de debater esse trabalho seminal, apresentando as afinidades entre a perspectiva sociológica de Mills, o pragmatismo norte-americano e o interacionismo simbólico da Escola de Chicago.

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“…Mills, while working at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia, had directed a study of opinion formation in Decatur, Illinois, but proved unwilling or unable to produce a report from the study. The details of the Mills‐Lazarsfeld conflict are murky (see, e.g., Horowitz, ; the interview with Merton in Mullan, ; Sterne, ; and Summers, ), and this is not the place to adjudicate the dispute (even assuming it was possible). Of course, neither Benney nor Durant had the stature of a C. Wright Mills or a Paul Lazarsfeld.…”

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“The Man Who Committed a Hundred Burglaries”: Mark Benney's Strange and Eventful Sociological Career

Lee¹

2015

J History Behavioral Science

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This article examines the life and career of the sociologist Mark Benney. It describes the processes, not all of them edifying, by which he made the transition from life as a career criminal, via literature, to become a sociologist first at the London School of Economics and then at the University of Chicago. Benney's career is then used to illuminate particular episodes in the history of sociology, including the attempt to introduce into British sociology in the period after the Second World War quantitative survey techniques of the kind that were then becoming more widely used in the United States, and his work with David Riesman on the Interview Project, Riesman's attempt to develop a empirically based sociology of the interview.

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“…In a dispute that was at once personal, political, and intellectual, Mills and Lazarsfeld famously clashed over the Decatur data (see Summers, ). A full decade after the original field work, the findings were finally published in 1955 as Personal Influence , with Bureau graduate student Elihu Katz as Lazarsfeld's coauthor.…”

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Mnemonic Multiples: The Case of the Columbia Panel Studies

Pooley¹

2014

J History Behavioral Science

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This article uses the Bureau of Applied Social Research's mid-century book-length panel studies-The People's Choice (1944), Voting (1954), and Personal Influence (1955)-to identify and illustrate a neglected phenomenon in the remembered history of social science: mnemonic multiples. The article describes the way that the Bureau books, originally published into a post-World War II interdisciplinary social science milieu, have since come to be remembered along distinct disciplinary tracks by sociologists, political scientists, and communication researchers. A contextual analysis of references to the Bureau studies in the flagship journals of the three disciplines, from 1960 through 2011, provides tentative support for the mnemonic multiples concept.

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Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld

Abstract: This article narrates the prehistory and posthistory of Personal Influence as an episode in the biographies of Paul Lazarsfeld and C. Wright Mills. It begins in 1945, when Lazarsfeld sent Mills to Decatur, Illinois, to undertake the fieldwork, and ends with Mills's death in 1962.

Cited by 26 publications

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Wright Mills e a sociologia do conhecimento: pragmatismo e interacionismo simbólico

Wright Mills e a sociologia do conhecimento: pragmatismo e interacionismo simbólico

“The Man Who Committed a Hundred Burglaries”: Mark Benney's Strange and Eventful Sociological Career

Mnemonic Multiples: The Case of the Columbia Panel Studies

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