Jean Stoetzel
Jean Stoetzel | |
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| Born | 23 April 1910  Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France) |
| Died | 21 February 1987 (aged 76) Boulogne-Billancourt (France) |
| Education | doctorate in France |
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| Fields | Sociology, social psychology, public opinion |
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| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Halbwachs |
| Doctoral students | Dominique Schnapper, Henri Raymond |
Jean Stoetzel (23 April 1910, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - 21 February 1987, Paris) was a French sociologist.
Biography
He had Alsacian and Lorrainian descent[1].
Stoetzel had studied in Lycée Louis-le-Grand, in a preparatory class for superiour schools (écoles supérieures)[2]
In 1932, he entered École normale supérieure in Parisе[3].
In 1938, he visited Columbia University in New York City. There he get to know the methods of opinion polling by George Gallup[4].
Upon return to France, he founded Institut français d'opinion publique, the first French organization to conduct opinion polling[3]. Amongst the question asked were the position of French on Édouard Daladier's politics with respect to "German threat", the opinion of birthrate decline, etc. Although Stoetzel methods were quite rude, he managed to detect rightward shift in French public mood[4].
During World War II, he was a liaison officer with British army and fought in Battle of Dunkirk. Afterwards, he returned to occupied France and taught philosophy in a secondary school[2].
Stoetzel became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1943. He was a sociology professor in University of Bordeaux in 1943-9154, and he was a social phychology professor in University of Paris in 1955-1978[1].
In 1977, Stoetzel was elected a member of Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques[1].
References
- ^ a b c Jean Stoetzel // Encyclopædia Universalis
- ^ a b Alain Girard Jean Stoetzel (1910—1987). Revue française de sociologie, Année 1987, 28-2, pp. 201—211
- ^ a b Valade, Bernard. «Jean Stoetzel: théorie des opinions et psychosociologie de la communication.» Hermès, La Revue 2 (2007): 72-74.
- ^ a b Philip Nord France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era, p. 83-84