Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal. Ein soziographischer Versuch über die Wirkungen langandauernder Arbeitslosigkeit
by Günther Busch (Editor), Marie Jahoda (Contributor), Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (Contributor), Hans Zeisel (Contributor)
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jcbrunner Both Marie Jahoda and Sudhir Venkatesh went into the field to observe their subjects. Jahoda studied Austrian unemployed workers during the Great Depression, Venkatesh black kids in a Chicago ghetto, offering new perspectives into strange worlds.
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Living in Vienna 30 minutes away from Marienthal by public transport and having heard quite a bit about this classic at university, I picked it up in the bookstore and was pleasantly surprised both by its stylistic elegance and the warmth of its message in the dark times that were the 1930s.
The combination of statistic data with human reporting vividly paints the picture of a community in decline. The only part missing is a proper cconclusion. The report ends without summing up their findings or giving recommendations.
Suhrkamp should have added a modern commentary about what happened to Marienthal or Grammatneusiedl after the study.
The combination of statistic data with human reporting vividly paints the picture of a community in decline. The only part missing is a proper cconclusion. The report ends without summing up their findings or giving recommendations.
Suhrkamp should have added a modern commentary about what happened to Marienthal or Grammatneusiedl after the study.
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Marie Jahoda, 1906 - 2001 Marie Jahoda was born in Vienna in 1906 and was brought up on the teachings of Freud and Young. She graduated from the University of Vienna with a doctorate in sociology and gained immediate recognition with a sociological study in Marienthal with Hans Zeisel and her first husband, Paul Lazarsfeld. The project consisted show more of measuring the psychological impact of unemployment in a hard working person. Jahoda was a Social Democrat who opposed the Austrian government and Hitler. When he annexed Austria, she was imprisoned but managed to escape to England. There she concentrated on issues such as unemployment and coal mine workers. She then traveled to the United States after World War II and did research for the American Jewish Committee and for Columbia University before going to work at N.Y.U, where she was a professor of social psychology and it's founding director of the Research Center for Human Relations. She worked at N.Y.U. from 1949 to 1958. She returned to Britain to work as a researcher and teacher at the University of Sussex until 1965 as well as attaining the level of emeritus professor during her tenure. Marie "Mitzie" Jahoda died on April 28 at her home in Keymar, England at the age of 94. show less
Paul F. Lazarsfeld was a Viennese-born American mathematician, psychologist, and sociologist who immigrated to the United States in 1933. In Vienna he had established an applied social research center, which became a model for others in the United States; the most famous product of the Vienna center is Marienthal (1933) a pioneering study of show more unemployment in an Austrian village. In the United States, Lazarsfeld became director of a Rockefeller Foundation-supported study of the impact of radio; through this study, communications research was established as a field of social science inquiry. In 1937 Lazarsfeld founded a research center, which became the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University; he taught at Columbia from 1940 until 1969. Lazarsfeld's research areas included mass communications, voting, latent structure analysis, mathematical models, the history of quantitative research, and the analysis of survey data. His major goal was to find intellectual convergences between the social sciences and the humanities, between concept formation and index construction, and between quantitative and qualitative research. His enthusiasm and originality had an enormous impact on colleagues and students; an annual evening lecture and reception at Columbia provided an opportunity for them to share both vivid memories and current experiences. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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