Paul F. Lazarsfeld's scientific contributions
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Publications (9)
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... The research material (often called 'data') never speaks for itself. Both in its generation or collection and its analysis, interpretive researchers need to proceed abductively (Peirce and Deely 1994, 172), i.e. by building plausible explanations that are based on their findings (Jahoda et al. 2009), as will be discussed below. ...
... In that case, the disbanding of the local factory employing (directly or indirectly) an entire community brought the material and psychological decline of its inhabitants. In the Marienthal study, Jahoda and her colleagues reported in even more depth the 'human costs' of unemployment (Fleck 2002 ). In particular, they focused on how unemployment affects human needs in relation to shared experiences, structured time and regular activity, collective purpose, status, circumstances and identity (Cole 2007 ). ...
... 42 At the same time, it is not so much the digital provision of education which is to blame for such damage than the fact that because of the lockdown, schools no longer can play their role of physical meeting place for youngsters to interact and learn to socialize within structured, regular time frames with teachers as both learning authority and knowledge sparring partners and, more generally, to prepare to make life choices. The comparison can be made here with the social psychology study of Marie Jahoda et al. (1933) on the unemployed of Mariënthal, often cited by Freeman, who suffered not just economically but primarily mentally, in terms of motivation and life meaning. In the current COVID-19 context, the unemployed now being the "uneducated" pupils and students. ...
