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- Author: LECUYER Bernard-Pierre
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| Title | A great francophile figure of empirical, quantitative and mathematical sociology, and of its historical study : Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976) |
| Author | LECUYER Bernard-Pierre |
| Keywords | Choice, Empirical social research, Mathematical model, Panel, Poll, Quantitative survey |
| Topics | Biography, History of sciences, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Voting |
| Abstract | The mathematical psychologist and sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), born Austrian and American by nationality, developed first in Austria and mostly in the United States, through the use of mostly quantitative surveys and mathematical models, the study of behavior processes leading to choice : choice of an occupation, of a consumption good, of a radio programm, of a candidate in a political election. The first part of the paper offers an overview of his life and career and of his numerous contibutions, including methodology (critical re-analysis of selected pieces of research). The second part deals with his two major books devoted to political behavior (The Peopleís Choice, 1944; Voting, 1954). The third part focusses on Lazarsfeldís interest in history ó a much less wellknown part of his work. First his writings, as well as those of his disciples (including the author of the present paper) on the history of empirical social research since roughly 1650 to our time. Second ó as an entirely different matter ó the close collaboration which he proposes to establish between the historians and the pollsters. The paper first recalls what were between 1938 and 1950 Lazarsfeldís relations with the polling agencies. Then it examines the various modalities of the collaboration which Lazarsfeld envisages between historians and pollsters in order to ameliorate our polls for the greater benefit of the historian of the future. |
| Number | 157, Spring 2002 |
| Language | French |
| Title | On money, file and death: the social investigations of Louis-René Villermé on differences in mortality according to income (1822-1830) |
| Author | LECUYER Bernard-Pierre, BRIAN Eric |
| Keywords | Ease, Longevity, Mortality, Political arithmetic, Statistics |
| Topics | Demography, Historical demography - History of Demography, History of sciences, Mathematical Statistics, Sociology, Statistics |
| Abstract | Louis-René Villermé, by his computations in political economy performed under the aegis of the Royal Academy of Medicine, based on administrative data, overthrows a timeless and fundamental topos of universal culture (money is powerless against death). Villermé establishes instead the existence of a direct relationship between ease (hence money) and longevity, and, naturally, of an inverse relationship between this same ease and mortality. A deep cultural revolution is at stake here concerning the perception of the relationships between money, life and death. The paper raises afterwards the question of the reasons why these daring results of political arithmetic of the years 1825 have only been accepted with a certain reticence by the official depositaries of the strictly statistical tradition of the Académie Royale des Sciences, i.e. the jury for the prize of statistics Auget de Montyon, and principally its referee Coquebert de Montbret. |
| Number | 149, Spring 2000 |
| Language | French |
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