Otto N Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 139684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Otto N Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Otto N |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN O N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Voicing Social Concern
Milestones and Millstones: Social Science at the National Science Foundation, 1945-1991
Milestones and Millstones: Social Science at the National Science Foundation, 1945-1991
From the 1960s onwards, the clothing industry in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the European Union, experienced a deep crisis. Numerous went bankrupt and, even more so, workers lost their jobs. Imports from low wage countries started providing the bulk of retailers' collections. In the high wage economy of the Netherlands there seemed to be no more room for labour intensive industry such as clothing. However, in the 1980s a surprising developme…
The criterion of ?relevance? in the support of research in the social sciences: 1965?1985
Social science out of the closet
Investing in the common good
Social Policy and Sociology
The uses of controversy in sociology
In Memoriam: Stuart Carter Dodd, 1900-1975
Journal Article In Memoriam: Stuart Carter Dodd, 1900-1975 Get access Otto N. Larsen Otto N. Larsen University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1976, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.1086/268322 Published: 01 January 1976
Social Policy and Sociology
Proceedings of a conference on policy research and graduate training held at Carmel, Calif., Dec., 1972.
Violence and the Mass Media
Sociological Gamesmanship in the Professorial Role-Set of the Ultramultiversity
Violence and the Mass Media
Controversies about the Mass Communication of Violence
Few would dispute that American mass communi cation dispenses large doses of violence to audiences ever grow ing in size. Two related controversies stem from this fact. One concerns the question of effects and the other the problem of control. An inventory of relevant research is inconclusive about effects, partly because of varying conceptions of what constitutes evidence. A dynamic opinion process leads to con trol efforts. Critics play a vital…
The Galapagos Expedition: Failure in the Pursuit of a Contemporary Secular Utopia
Goals and Goal-Achievement Methods in Television Content: Models for Anomie
Conceptual Sociology: A Manual of Exercises Relating Concepts to Specimens, Principles, and Definitions
The Effects of Mass Communication: An Analysis of Research on the Effectiveness and Limitations of Mass Media in Influencing the Opinions, Values and Behavior of Their Audiences
Communication, Consensus and the Community Involvement of Urban Husbands and Wives
Introduction to Problem. Sociologists rarely attribute cohesive power of to way of life. To contrary, city is often depicted as place where social relations are marked by traits of transiency, superficiality and anonymity.') Thus, E. Gordon Ericksen describes urban dwellars as people living together much like sardines in can yet treating each other indifferently.2) In related vein, Robert Lynd observes that because of high mobility urbanite sinks…
Innovators and Early Adopters of Television
The Flow of Information
Nightmare of the Innocents
Tornadoes Over Texas: A Study of Waco and San Angelo in Disaster
Sociology
The Flow of Information: An Experiment in Mass Communication
Mass Media and Interpersonal Communication in the Diffusion of a News Event
A NECESSARY component in the systematic development of knowledge dealing with communication is a body of descriptive information concerning various aspects of this dynamic behavior. The literature devoted to such description is both rich and varied, but few students of communications problems would claim that it is complete. The present study attempts to add to this body of descriptive material centering on the question, How does the news get aro…
Diffusion and Belief in a Collective Delusion: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
W HILE individuals may at times lose touch with reality as their culture defines it, whole communities ordinarily do not. Yet instances are on record when this has very nearly happened: people in Illinois,. believed for a few days in September 1945 that a phantom anesthetist was prowling their town; 1 and a Martian invasion took place in the minds of many persons in the New York City area on October 30, 1938.2 Russia's Sputniks may be expected to…
Tornadoes Over Texas: A Study of Waco and San Angelo in Disaster
The Flow of Information: An Experiment in Mass Communication
Violence and the Mass Media
The Comparative Validity of Telephone and Face-to-Face Interviews in the Measurement of Message Diffusion from Leaflets
Social science out of the closet
Innovators and Early Adopters of Television
The Comparative Role of Children and Adults in Propaganda Diffusion
Sociological Gamesmanship in the Professorial Role-Set of the Ultramultiversity
The Galapagos Expedition: Failure in the Pursuit of a Contemporary Secular Utopia
Goals and Goal-Achievement Methods in Television Content: Models for Anomie
The Effects of Mass Communication: An Analysis of Research on the Effectiveness and Limitations of Mass Media in Influencing the Opinions, Values and Behavior of Their Audiences
Communication, Consensus and the Community Involvement of Urban Husbands and Wives
Introduction to Problem. Sociologists rarely attribute cohesive power of to way of life. To contrary, city is often depicted as place where social relations are marked by traits of transiency, superficiality and anonymity.') Thus, E. Gordon Ericksen describes urban dwellars as people living together much like sardines in can yet treating each other indifferently.2) In related vein, Robert Lynd observes that because of high mobility urbanite sinks…
Characteristics of Hard-to-Reach Individuals in Field Surveys
Journal Article Characteristics of Hard-to-Reach Individuals in Field Surveys Get access GEORGE A. LUNDBERG, GEORGE A. LUNDBERG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OTTO N. LARSEN OTTO N. LARSEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 3, FALL 1949, Pages 487–494, https://doi.org/10.1086/266097 Published: 01 January 1949
Characteristics of Hard-to-Reach Individuals in Field Surveys
Journal Article Characteristics of Hard-to-Reach Individuals in Field Surveys Get access GEORGE A. LUNDBERG, GEORGE A. LUNDBERG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OTTO N. LARSEN OTTO N. LARSEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 3, FALL 1949, Pages 487–494, https://doi.org/10.1086/266097 Published: 01 January 1949
The Comparative Validity of Telephone and Face-to-Face Interviews in the Measurement of Message Diffusion from Leaflets
Rumors in a Disaster
Journal Article Rumors in a Disaster Get access Otto N. Larsen Otto N. Larsen 1Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 4, Issue 4, December 1954, Pages 111–123, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1954.tb00239.x Published: 07 February 2006
Mass Media and Interpersonal Communication in the Diffusion of a News Event
A NECESSARY component in the systematic development of knowledge dealing with communication is a body of descriptive information concerning various aspects of this dynamic behavior. The literature devoted to such description is both rich and varied, but few students of communications problems would claim that it is complete. The present study attempts to add to this body of descriptive material centering on the question, How does the news get aro…
Sociology
The Comparative Role of Children and Adults in Propaganda Diffusion
Sociology
The Flow of Information: An Experiment in Mass Communication
Diffusion and Belief in a Collective Delusion: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
W HILE individuals may at times lose touch with reality as their culture defines it, whole communities ordinarily do not. Yet instances are on record when this has very nearly happened: people in Illinois,. believed for a few days in September 1945 that a phantom anesthetist was prowling their town; 1 and a Martian invasion took place in the minds of many persons in the New York City area on October 30, 1938.2 Russia's Sputniks may be expected to…
Social Structure and Interpersonal Communication
The flow of informati is related to the changing structure of group relations in two studies of small communities consisting of boys in a summer camp. In these situations message " starters" were selected according to their position in the social structure. The findings suggest a number of ways in which the spread of information may be guided by considerations of social status
Nightmare of the Innocents
Tornadoes Over Texas: A Study of Waco and San Angelo in Disaster
The Flow of Information
Conceptual Sociology: A Manual of Exercises Relating Concepts to Specimens, Principles, and Definitions
The Effects of Mass Communication: An Analysis of Research on the Effectiveness and Limitations of Mass Media in Influencing the Opinions, Values and Behavior of Their Audiences
Communication, Consensus and the Community Involvement of Urban Husbands and Wives
Introduction to Problem. Sociologists rarely attribute cohesive power of to way of life. To contrary, city is often depicted as place where social relations are marked by traits of transiency, superficiality and anonymity.') Thus, E. Gordon Ericksen describes urban dwellars as people living together much like sardines in can yet treating each other indifferently.2) In related vein, Robert Lynd observes that because of high mobility urbanite sinks…
Innovators and Early Adopters of Television
Goals and Goal-Achievement Methods in Television Content: Models for Anomie
The Galapagos Expedition: Failure in the Pursuit of a Contemporary Secular Utopia
Controversies about the Mass Communication of Violence
Few would dispute that American mass communi cation dispenses large doses of violence to audiences ever grow ing in size. Two related controversies stem from this fact. One concerns the question of effects and the other the problem of control. An inventory of relevant research is inconclusive about effects, partly because of varying conceptions of what constitutes evidence. A dynamic opinion process leads to con trol efforts. Critics play a vital…
Sociological Gamesmanship in the Professorial Role-Set of the Ultramultiversity
Violence and the Mass Media
Violence and the Mass Media
Social Policy and Sociology
Proceedings of a conference on policy research and graduate training held at Carmel, Calif., Dec., 1972.
The uses of controversy in sociology
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