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Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell
Pages 42-59
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In ~ 946, at age thirty-six, his twelfth publication appeared (with George Katona as coauthor) under the name Angus Campbell and that is what he was known as ever after.
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He went to Northwestern expecting to teach experimental psychology, but as Franklin Fearing tract just moved from Northwestern to UCLA, Angus was asked to teach Fearing's course in social psychology. In so doing, he came into contact with Melville Herskovits, a social anthropologist at Northwestern, and attended his courses and seminars.
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Other social scientists assemblecI by Likert who also became longtime research associates of Angus Campbell includect Charles Cannell, Dorwin Cartwright, George Katona, Daniel Katz, anc! Leslie Kish, as well as others, like Theodore Newcomb, who were associated with particular projects.
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For Angus in particular, these clevelopments were parallelecI with experience in research administration, including the translation of the needs of management and planners into wellstructured, researchable problems followed by communication and interpretation of the research findings to clients and the public. Two well-known studies undertaken by the Department of Agriculture Division 7 Program Surveys cluring this perioct were the War Bond Redemption Study and the Bombing Survey.
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They took this position in part because their data clip not support it, and in part because they continuccI to collect data up to the day of the election, the latter being one of the reasons they adhered to a policy of nonprediction in all their subsequent election studies. Following this initial election study, Angus establishect a research program for the continuing study of election behavior, collaborating with GeralcI Gurin and Warren Miller, and in later years with Miller, Philip E
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The . notion of a "funnel of causality" was a metaphor for the narrowing clown along a time axis from the more remote factors affecting a voter's decision, such as party identification anti social class, to the more immediate factors of specific attitudes and candidates.
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Converse edited a book entitled The Human Measurement of Social Change (1972~. The twelve contributions contained in this book are concerned with possible psychological components and indicators of social change, such as attitudes and aspirations.
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On the other hand, there is an intuitively compelling reasonableness about the concept and a "need-toknow" that makes some social scientists and statisticians willing to brave the perils and to construct an index. In their book on the quality of American life, seventeen specific domains of life experience were investigated, such as marriage, health, job, savings, and the like.
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In addition to the Distinguishes! Scientific Achievement Award of the American Psychological Association, he had received the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (1962)
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1961; on the Committee on SST-Sonic Boom, National Academy of Sciences, 1964-70; on the Advisory Committee on Consumer Expenctitures, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1960-64; on an advisory group to the Social Security Aclministration, 1961-64; and served with numerous other groups for the American Psychological Association, the Social Science Research Council, the National Research Council, and agencies of the U.S. government, including the executive office of the president.
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:27-36. Human relations program of the Survey Research Center: First three years of development.
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Political party identification and attitudes toward foreign policy. Public Opinion Q
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Party identification in Norway and the United States. Public Opinion Q., 25:505-25.
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Racial attitudes in fifteen American cities. In: Supplemental Studies for The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, pp.11 - 67.
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The Human Meaning of Social Change. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
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