Jean Stoetzel
Born23 April 1910 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France) Edit this on Wikidata
Died21 February 1987 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 76)
Boulogne-Billancourt (France) Edit this on Wikidata
Educationdoctorate in France Edit this on Wikidata
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Awards
Academic career
FieldsSociology, social psychology, public opinion Edit this on Wikidata
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Doctoral advisorMaurice Halbwachs
Doctoral studentsDominique Schnapper, Henri Raymond

Jean Stoetzel (23 April 1910, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - 21 February 1987, Paris) was a French sociologist.

Biography

He had Alsacian and Lorrainian descent.[1]

Stoetzel had studied in Lycée Louis-le-Grand, in a preparatory class for superior schools (écoles supérieures)[2]

In 1932, he entered École normale supérieure in Parisе.[3]

In 1938, he visited Columbia University in New York City. There he get to know the methods of opinion polling by George Gallup.[4]

Upon return to France, he founded Institut français d'opinion publique, the first French organization to conduct opinion polling.[3] Amongst the questions asked were the position of French on Édouard Daladier's politics with respect to "German threat", the opinion of birth rate decline, etc. Although Stoetzel methods were quite crude, he managed to detect rightward shift in French public mood.[4]

During World War II, he was a liaison officer with British army and fought in Battle of Dunkirk. Afterwards, he returned to occupied France and taught philosophy in a secondary school.[2]

Stoetzel became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1943. He was a sociology professor at the University of Bordeaux 1943-1954, and he was a social psychology professor at the University of Paris 1955-1978.[1]

In 1977, Stoetzel was elected a member of Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.[1] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jean Stoetzel // Encyclopædia Universalis
  2. 1 2 Alain Girard Jean Stoetzel (1910—1987). Revue française de sociologie, Année 1987, 28-2, pp. 201—211
  3. 1 2 Valade, Bernard. «Jean Stoetzel: théorie des opinions et psychosociologie de la communication.» Hermès, La Revue 2 (2007): 72-74.
  4. 1 2 Philip Nord France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era, p. 83-84
  5. ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
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