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Mnemonic Multiples: The Case of the Columbia Panel Studies
Author(s) -
Pooley Jefferson D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/jhbs.21698
Subject(s) - mnemonic , multiple , discipline , phenomenon , politics , sociology , social science , history , media studies , psychology , political science , epistemology , cognitive psychology , law , philosophy , arithmetic , mathematics
This article uses the Bureau of Applied Social Research's mid‐century book‐length panel studies— The People's Choice (1944), Voting (1954), and Personal Influence (1955)—to identify and illustrate a neglected phenomenon in the remembered history of social science: mnemonic multiples. The article describes the way that the Bureau books, originally published into a post–World War II interdisciplinary social science milieu, have since come to be remembered along distinct disciplinary tracks by sociologists, political scientists, and communication researchers. A contextual analysis of references to the Bureau studies in the flagship journals of the three disciplines, from 1960 through 2011, provides tentative support for the mnemonic multiples concept.