Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979
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Name (Latin)
Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979
Other forms of name
Berelson, B. (Bernard), 1912-1979
Bereruson, Bānādo, 1912-1979
Berelson, Barney, 1912-1979
Berelson, Bernard, 1912-
Date of birth
1912-06-02
Date of death
1979-09-25
Place of birth
Spokane (Wash.)
Associate group
Columbia University
University of Chicago
Stanford University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Population Council
Occupation
Behavioral scientists
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Bernard Reuben
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Elmira community study, 1948:title page (Bernard R. Berelson)
- OCLC, June 26, 2006(hdg.: Berelson, Bernard; usage: B. Berelson, Bānādo Bereruson)
- Wikipedia, via WWW, September 6, 2012(Bernard Berelson; Bernard Reuben Berelson (1912-1979) was an American behavioral scientist, known for work on communication and mass media; he was a leading proponent of the broad idea of the "behavioral sciences," a field he saw as including areas such as public opinion; he was born in Spokane, Washington; he majored in English at Whitman College, graduating in 1934; he took a library science degree at the University of Washington in 1936, and an English master's there in 1937; a doctoral degree in the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago, under the influence of Douglas Waples and completed in 1941, led him into the field of public opinion; from 1944 he worked in applied social research at Columbia University; he returned to Chicago in 1946, and in 1952 became head of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences set up by the Ford Foundation at Stanford University; he moved back to Chicago in 1957 and to Columbia in 1960; he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962; the same year, he joined the Population Council, eventually becoming its President)
- Waples, D. What reading does to people.
- His Berelson on population, c1988:p. vi (Bernard Berelson, 1912-1979) p. vii (Barney Berelson)