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Od tréninkového centra k převládajícímu paradigmatu poválečné sociologické metodologie. Cesta kolumbijské školy od porážky k vítězství
Číslo: 2/2019
Periodikum: Historická sociologie
DOI: 10.14712/23363525.2019.19
Klíčová slova: Advance Training Center; Paul Lazarsfeld; social research; Columbia school
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Anotace:
In the early 1950s BASR at Columbia University applied to become a training centre in
sociological research for doctoral students. In 1950 Paul Lazarsfeld and R. K. Merton submitted
a Memorandum to Columbia University that contained a well-argued proposal for BASR to be
transformed into an Advanced Training Centre in Social Research. However, the Ford Foundation, which was funding the entire event, selected a rival project. In the western United States,
in Palo Alto, California, it founded a new institution called the Center for Advanced Studies,
devoting 3.5 million USD to its construction. Following this decision Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert
Merton prepared and presented a project for the management of Columbia University called the
“Planning Project for Advanced Training” (PPAT), for which the university managed to obtain
120,000 USD from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations. The project aimed to focus mainly on
specific publications that could then be used to train doctoral students in the work of research.
Lazarsfeld and his methodological school used almost all of the project’s resources to publish several key methodological monographs through the renowned Free Press. Lazarsfeld, with the help
of R. K. Merton and the university, managed by means of these focused publishing activities that
supported examples of applied work by BASR and Columbia University to advance the Columbia
school of sociology’s methodological model as the leading paradigm of sociological research and
doctoral education during the first two post-war decades in the USA and Western Europe.
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sociological research for doctoral students. In 1950 Paul Lazarsfeld and R. K. Merton submitted
a Memorandum to Columbia University that contained a well-argued proposal for BASR to be
transformed into an Advanced Training Centre in Social Research. However, the Ford Foundation, which was funding the entire event, selected a rival project. In the western United States,
in Palo Alto, California, it founded a new institution called the Center for Advanced Studies,
devoting 3.5 million USD to its construction. Following this decision Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert
Merton prepared and presented a project for the management of Columbia University called the
“Planning Project for Advanced Training” (PPAT), for which the university managed to obtain
120,000 USD from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations. The project aimed to focus mainly on
specific publications that could then be used to train doctoral students in the work of research.
Lazarsfeld and his methodological school used almost all of the project’s resources to publish several key methodological monographs through the renowned Free Press. Lazarsfeld, with the help
of R. K. Merton and the university, managed by means of these focused publishing activities that
supported examples of applied work by BASR and Columbia University to advance the Columbia
school of sociology’s methodological model as the leading paradigm of sociological research and
doctoral education during the first two post-war decades in the USA and Western Europe.