Columbia University Research In Social Science

Columbia University Research has embarked on a landmark study of child behavior. Researchers at Columbia University's Paul F. Lasarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences are currently studying how children, who possess some unique attribute (s), are identified and develop. While all children are unique, this specific study seeks to identify how children with unique developmental abilities or trajectories develop over early childhood.

Their specific focus is on children with unique artistic or scientific abilities, children on the autism spectrum, children who have been identified as gifted, children who have been identified as having attention disorders, and children with unusual empathetic capacities.

The Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences (PLF-CSS) is an interdisciplinary research center that supports new research across a wide spectrum of domains. They are dedicated to going beyond what traditional disciplines are able to achieve.

To participate in this study and/or learn more about this social science research, the survey can be completed at the unique child study page.

The PFL-CSS has evolved from the Bureau for Applied Social Research. APR was established by Paul F. Lazarsfeld after his move to Columbia University. This entity was created to make possible large-scale studies that redefined public opinion research and communication studies.

A good amount of methodology of current social science research was developed as a result of ASR research. Leading figures in sociology such as C. Wright Mills, Robert Merton and Lazarsfeld contributed greatly to groundbreaking studies by the Bureau. The most notable was Personal Influence.

Lazarsfeld passed on in 1976, and the Bureau was renamed The Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences. Subsequent directors Harold Watts, Jonathan Cole, and Harrison White continued Lazarsfeld’s work, using the PFL-CSS as a vehicle to advance and support social science research throughout the University. In 1999, the Center was incorporated into the Institute for Social and Economic Theory and Research, which would then merge with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.

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