Bernard Reuben Berelson (1912–1979) was an American behavioral scientist, known for his 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.[1] In Chapter 14 of Voting (1954), he enunciated what has become known as Berelson's paradox on democracy: while classical theories of its success assume voters committed to interest in public life, this fails to correspond with practical politics, while the system itself functions.[2][3]
Berelson wrote a summary entitled The Great Debate on Cultural Democracy regarding the confrontation between mass society theorists and researchers for the media industries. Berelson asserted that the resolution of the debate was simple: just listen to mass communication researchers like himself as they develop useful answers to the issues raised by others.
^Robert M. Eisinger, The Evolution of Presidential Polling (2003), p. 15.
^Carole Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory (1970), pp. 5-6.
^Donald Granberg and Soren Holmberg, The Berelson Paradox Reconsidered: Intention-Behavior Changers in U.S. and Swedish Election Campaigns, The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 530-550.
Bernard Reuben Berelson (1912–1979) was an American behavioral scientist, known for his work on communication and mass media. He was a leading proponent...
opinion leader concept have been Robert K. Merton, C. Wright Mills and BernardBerelson. This theory is one of several models that try to explain the diffusion...
Rockefeller are: Frederick Osborn (1957–1959), Frank Notestein (1959–1968), BernardBerelson (1968–1974), George Zeidenstein (1977–1992), Margaret Catley-Carlson...
The latter was a degree-granting program that counted Elihu Katz, BernardBerelson, Edward Shils, and David Riesman amongst its faculty, alumni include...
in 1972 as the Family Planning commemorative stamp. John Rock, MD BernardBerelson, PhD Julia Henderson Frederick S. Jaffe Edris Rice-Wray, MD, PhD Alfred...
communication model was introduced in The People's Choice (Paul Lazarsfeld, BernardBerelson, and Hazel Gaudet's 1940 study of voters' decision-making processes)...
(pp. 67-91). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, BernardBerelson, Hazel Gaudet (1948). The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His...
itself as a vital part of life in Dublin. A 1945 study by sociologist BernardBerelson found that during the 1945 New York newspaper strike, New Yorkers exhibited...
collaboration between sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld and public opinion scholar BernardBerelson.[citation needed] The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed a takeoff...
Lasswell was finally carried out by another "father" of content analysis, BernardBerelson, who proposed a definition of content analysis which, from this point...
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Ideas. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1940. Lazarsfeld, Paul F., BernardBerelson, and Hazel Gaudet. The People’s Choice: How the Voter Makes up his...
impact on the profession including Hugh Atkinson, Susan Grey Akers, BernardBerelson, Michèle Cloonan, El Sayed Mahmoud El Sheniti, Eliza Atkins Gleason...
Wilson 1949–50 Paul F. Lazarsfeld 1950–51 Julian L. Woodward 1951–52 BernardBerelson 1952–53 Archibald Crossley 1953–54 Samuel A. Stouffer 1954–55 George...
how individuals make political decisions. In 1940, Paul Lazarsfeld, BernardBerelson, and Hazel Gaudet carried out one of the earliest studies examining...
who did not actively oppose it. He published an article in 1938 by BernardBerelson entitled "The Myth of Library Impartiality". This article led Forrest...
377-382. Waples, Douglas and BernardBerelson. Public Communications and Public Opinions [by] Douglas Waples and BernardBerelson, Graduate Library School...
2307/2146160. ISSN 0032-3195. JSTOR 2146160. Lazarsfeld, Paul F.; Berelson, Bernard; Gaudet, Hazel (1968-05-06), "The People'S Choice: How the Voter Makes...
Opinion Quarterly. 15 (2): 243–64. doi:10.1086/266306. JSTOR 2746167. Berelson, Bernard (1974). "In Memoriam: Helen Dinerman, 1920-1974". Public Opinion Quarterly...
doi:10.1177/1940161219836223. S2CID 151113750. Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix; Berelson, Bernard; Gaudet, Hazel (1948). The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up...
PMID 23505245. Feely, Richard A.; Sabine, Christopher L.; Lee, Kitack; Berelson, Will; Kleypas, Joanie; Fabry, Victoria J.; Millero, Frank J. (16 July...
5158. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9477.2009.00238.x. Lazarsfeld, Paul F.; Berelson, Bernard; Gaudet, Hazel (1968) [1944]. The people's choice; how the voter makes...
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