Jean Stoetzel
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Jean Stoetzel (23 April 1910, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - 21 February 1987, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French sociologist.
Biography
He had Alsacian and Lorrainian descent.[https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/jean-stoetzel/ Jean Stoetzel] // Encyclopædia Universalis
Stoetzel had studied in Lycée Louis-le-Grand, in a preparatory class for superior schools (écoles supérieures)Alain Girard [https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfsoc_0035-2969_1987_num_28_2_2392 Jean Stoetzel (1910—1987)]. Revue française de sociologie, Année 1987, 28-2, pp. 201—211
In 1932, he entered École normale supérieure in Paris.Valade, Bernard. «[https://www.cairn.info/revue-hermes-la-revue-2007-2-page-72.htm Jean Stoetzel: théorie des opinions et psychosociologie de la communication].» Hermès, La Revue 2 (2007): 72-74.
In 1938, he visited Columbia University in New York City. There he get to know the methods of opinion polling by George Gallup.Philip Nord [https://books.google.com/books?id=oyC7tl0ny40C&pg=PA83 France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era], p. 83-84
Upon return to France, he founded Institut français d'opinion publique, the first French organization to conduct opinion polling. 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.
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.
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.
In 1977, Stoetzel was elected a member of Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979.{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Jean+Stoetzel&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-06-27 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
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Category:20th-century French people
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