Gladys Engel Lang
Biographic Data
| ID | 94920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gladys Engel Lang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gladys Engel |
| FAMILY NAME | Lang |
| SIGNATURE | LANG G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Television and Politics
"The authorsahave analyzed the television problem brilliantly. They had come up with a whole set of new insights, and their backup research always is fascinating to read."-Saturday Review"A cautious, research-based bookahopefully it will set a trend."-Ithiel de Sola Pool, Public Opinion QuarterlyAfter more than forty years of studying its political implications, Kurt and Gladys Lang put the power of television into a unique perspective. Through c…
On the Development of Communication Theory Some Reflections
This chapter reflects on various efforts to theorize about mass communication processes and effects, spanning an era that ranges from early paradigms to contemporary technologies. A number of theoretical approaches are presented and assessed for their emphases, limitations, and potential for increasing understanding of fundamental human and social communications phenomena
Personal Influence and the New Paradigm
An examination of the reception given Personal Influence when first published points to highly selective interpretations of the findings. The claims reviewers made for the influence of interpersonal communication relative to the mass media, especially in the political process, went even beyond those advanced by the authors. They overlooked not only the very restricted conceptualization of “effects” that guided the Decatur research but also previo…
Afterword
Afterword
Response to Herman and Chomsky
(2004). Response to Herman and Chomsky. Political Communication: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 109-111
Noam Chomsky and the Manufacture of Consent for American Foreign Policy
Few names of academic scholars are so well recognized all around the world as that of Noam Chomsky. He is listed as the author or coauthor of well over 1,000 items in the online database of the Library of Congress. The range of topics covered in these books, videos, and audiotapes reveals at least three different Chomskys: the linguistic scholar internationally recognized for his theory of transformational grammar and generative syntax, the polit…
Banishing the past
Perspectives on Communication
Journal Article Perspectives on Communication Get access Kurt Lang, Kurt Lang 1Kurt Lang is a professor of sociology and communication and Gladys Engel Lang is a professor emerita of communication, political science, and sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gladys Engel Lang Gladys Engel Lang 1Kurt Lang is a professor of sociology and communication and Glady…
Collective memory and political generations
In 1989, just before German reunification, 498 German journalists were asked to indicate which, from a list of 34 major historical events, such as the end of World War II, the 1949 German currency reform, the building of the Berlin wall, the student movement, and the Chernobyl disaster, they vividly remembered, which still oriented their political thinking, and their political reaction to these events. While some events stand out for all ages, yo…
Etched in Memory
Between 1880 and 1930, the art of painter-etching rose to a degree of popularity unmatched before or since. When the tide went out, most of the etchers once acclaimed were forgotten along with their prints - but some were more forgotten than others. in seeks to understand the process whereby some producers of culture but not others come to be considered worth remembering. Through a combination of masterful sleuthing and analytical rigor, Gladys E…
The Changing Professional Ethos
A mail survey of 129 contact persons for polling organization revealed that 62 per cent of the firms from which responses were received do not go back before 1980. Many respondents were themselves newcomers, who had found their way into polling via politics and showed less commitment to the professional ethos that meant so much to the pioneer pollsters. Newcomers, on the average, had fewer academic credentials and less training than either of two…
"Collecting on "Collective Memory
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy
Questions about the nature of intelligence and intelligence testing have sparked increasing controversy during the past two decades. The widely held view that intelligence is measureable, and both genetic endowment and environment are key determinants of intelligence, first came under sharp attack during the decade of the 1960s. It was asserted that we do not know what intelligence is, that we do not know how to measure intelligence, and that IQ …
Research In Social Movements
Renaissance Revivals
Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interest…
Recognition and Renown
This inquiry into one aspect of collective memory-the differential survival of reputation-distinguishes between two components of reputation: recognition by peers and more universal renown. Before their style of working went out of fashion in the 1930s, all the artists studied had been recognized as painter-etchers, but few had achieved a level of renown that guaranteed the preservation of their original oeuvres, a condition that, in the instance…
Still seeking answers
The Social Meaning of an Earthquake Threat
Presidential Communications
The Future of Children's Television
Over the Wire and on TV
The Battle for Public Opinion
The Impact of Polls on Public Opinion
There are three ways in which polls can influence the public opinion they purport merely to measure. Just being interviewed tends to arouse interest and to encourage some respondents to inform themselves and to clarify their views on the subject. It may even increase electoral participation. Second, there is little evidence that knowledge of where the majority stands has anything like the much feared bandwagon effect. Although many people are awa…
The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect
Recognition and Renown
This inquiry into one aspect of collective memory-the differential survival of reputation-distinguishes between two components of reputation: recognition by peers and more universal renown. Before their style of working went out of fashion in the 1930s, all the artists studied had been recognized as painter-etchers, but few had achieved a level of renown that guaranteed the preservation of their original oeuvres, a condition that, in the instance…
The Impact of Polls on Public Opinion
There are three ways in which polls can influence the public opinion they purport merely to measure. Just being interviewed tends to arouse interest and to encourage some respondents to inform themselves and to clarify their views on the subject. It may even increase electoral participation. Second, there is little evidence that knowledge of where the majority stands has anything like the much feared bandwagon effect. Although many people are awa…
Immediate and Delayed Responses to a Carter-Ford Debate
The televised Carter-Ford debate elicited consistently more favorable responses among young voters viewing in a lecture hall under controlled conditions and responding immediately afterward than among a comparable group who viewed it in settings of their own choice and whose reactions were obtained only after a lapse of four to seven days. Where the immediately-after reactions divided very much along partisan lines, the gains Ford registered amon…
Robert E. Park on Social Control and Collective Behavior
People, Society, and Mass Communications
Collective memory and political generations
In 1989, just before German reunification, 498 German journalists were asked to indicate which, from a list of 34 major historical events, such as the end of World War II, the 1949 German currency reform, the building of the Berlin wall, the student movement, and the Chernobyl disaster, they vividly remembered, which still oriented their political thinking, and their political reaction to these events. While some events stand out for all ages, yo…
Ordeal by Debate
Journal Article ORDEAL BY DEBATE: VIEWER REACTIONS Get access KURT LANG, KURT LANG The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Queens College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GLADYS ENGEL LANG GLADYS ENGEL LANG The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Queens Colleg…
The Inferential Structure of Political Communications
Journal Article The Inferential Structure of Political Communications: A Study in Unwitting Bias Get access GLADYS ENGEL LANG, GLADYS ENGEL LANG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar KURT LANG KURT LANG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 2, Summer 1955, Pages 168–183, https://doi.org/10.1086/266559 Published: 01 January 1955
Personal Influence and the New Paradigm
An examination of the reception given Personal Influence when first published points to highly selective interpretations of the findings. The claims reviewers made for the influence of interpersonal communication relative to the mass media, especially in the political process, went even beyond those advanced by the authors. They overlooked not only the very restricted conceptualization of “effects” that guided the Decatur research but also previo…
The “New” Rhetoric of Mass Communication Research
Journal Article The “New” Rhetoric of Mass Communication Research: A Longer View Get access Kurt Lang, Kurt Lang 1Kurt Lang is Professor of Sociology and Gladys Engel Lang is Professor of Sociology and Communication, both at the State University of New York, Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gladys Engel Lang Gladys Engel Lang 1Kurt Lang is Professor of Sociology and Gladys Engel Lang is Professo…
Polling on Watergate
Journal Article Polling on Watergate: The Battle for Public Opinion Get access GLADYS ENGEL LANG, GLADYS ENGEL LANG Gladys Engel Lang is Professor of Sociology and Communications at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kurt Lang is Professor of Sociology at the same university. This paper is based on research by the authors as Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. This support is gratefully …
Noam Chomsky and the Manufacture of Consent for American Foreign Policy
Few names of academic scholars are so well recognized all around the world as that of Noam Chomsky. He is listed as the author or coauthor of well over 1,000 items in the online database of the Library of Congress. The range of topics covered in these books, videos, and audiotapes reveals at least three different Chomskys: the linguistic scholar internationally recognized for his theory of transformational grammar and generative syntax, the polit…
Response to Herman and Chomsky
(2004). Response to Herman and Chomsky. Political Communication: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 109-111
The Television Personality in Politics
Journal Article The Television Personality in Politics: Some Considerations Get access KURT LANG, KURT LANG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GLADYS ENGEL LANG GLADYS ENGEL LANG * Mr. Lang is Retearch Sociologist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mrs. Lang is Lecturer in Sociology, Corleton College, Ottawa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarte…
Racial Disturbances as Collective Protest
The Changing Professional Ethos
A mail survey of 129 contact persons for polling organization revealed that 62 per cent of the firms from which responses were received do not go back before 1980. Many respondents were themselves newcomers, who had found their way into polling via politics and showed less commitment to the professional ethos that meant so much to the pioneer pollsters. Newcomers, on the average, had fewer academic credentials and less training than either of two…
The Role of Communications in the Middle East Conflict
The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect
The Inferential Structure of Political Communications
Journal Article The Inferential Structure of Political Communications: A Study in Unwitting Bias Get access GLADYS ENGEL LANG, GLADYS ENGEL LANG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar KURT LANG KURT LANG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 2, Summer 1955, Pages 168–183, https://doi.org/10.1086/266559 Published: 01 January 1955
The Television Personality in Politics
Journal Article The Television Personality in Politics: Some Considerations Get access KURT LANG, KURT LANG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GLADYS ENGEL LANG GLADYS ENGEL LANG * Mr. Lang is Retearch Sociologist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mrs. Lang is Lecturer in Sociology, Corleton College, Ottawa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarte…
Political Participation and the Television Perspective
Political Participation and the Television Perspective Get access Kurt Lang, Kurt Lang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Gladys Engel Lang Gladys Engel Lang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 October 1956, Pages 107–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/799115 Published: 09 August 2014
Ordeal by Debate
Journal Article ORDEAL BY DEBATE: VIEWER REACTIONS Get access KURT LANG, KURT LANG The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Queens College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GLADYS ENGEL LANG GLADYS ENGEL LANG The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Queens Colleg…
Black Nationalism
Collective Dynamics
The Quest for Paradise; Europe and the American Moral Imagination. Charles L. Sanford
People, Society, and Mass Communications
Resistance to School Desegregation
Center report
Racial Disturbances as Collective Protest
Voting and Nonvoting
Robert E. Park on Social Control and Collective Behavior
Politics and Television
Professionalism under attack
Some Pertinent Questions on Collective Violence and the News Media
How responsible the coverage of conflict and confrontation by the news media is for the violence in contemporary American society involves at least four separate issues. (1) Do general news practices help create violence‐prone situations? (2) What effect does the presence of TV and other news media in such situations have on the likelihood that violence will erupt? (3) What impact do news reports of violence already in progress have on its subseq…
Mass Media and Society
Sociology and mass media
"Sesame Street" Revisited
The Role of Communications in the Middle East Conflict
The First Debate and the Coverage Gap
“Live media coverage of the first debate, an event that would allegedly have occurred without it, put a stop to the event it was meant to cover.”
Immediate and Delayed Responses to a Carter-Ford Debate
The televised Carter-Ford debate elicited consistently more favorable responses among young voters viewing in a lecture hall under controlled conditions and responding immediately afterward than among a comparable group who viewed it in settings of their own choice and whose reactions were obtained only after a lapse of four to seven days. Where the immediately-after reactions divided very much along partisan lines, the gains Ford registered amon…
Polling on Watergate
Journal Article Polling on Watergate: The Battle for Public Opinion Get access GLADYS ENGEL LANG, GLADYS ENGEL LANG Gladys Engel Lang is Professor of Sociology and Communications at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kurt Lang is Professor of Sociology at the same university. This paper is based on research by the authors as Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. This support is gratefully …
Artists in Offices
Universities have become important sources of patronage and professional artistic preparation. With the growing academization of art instruction, young artists are increasingly socialized in bureaucratic settings, and mature artists find themselves working as organizational employees in an academic setting. As these artists lose the social marginality and independence associated with an earlier, more individual aesthetic production, much cultural…
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