Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld

John H. Summers
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John H. Summers: University of Rochester

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2006, vol. 608, issue 1, 25-40

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.

Keywords: C. Wright Mills; Paul Lazarsfeld; Robert Merton; Columbia sociology; Personal Influence; sociological imagination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716206292374

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