{{Short description|American sociologist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Helen Schneider Dinerman | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = December 25, 1920 | birth_place = New York City, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|8|14|1920|12|25}} | death_place = Portland, Oregon | residence = | citizenship = | ethnicity = | field = Sociology | work_institutions = International Research Associates | alma_mater = Hunter College<br>Columbia University | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Public opinion research | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = | signature = }} '''Helen Schneider Dinerman''' (December 25, 1920 – August 14, 1974) was an American sociologist and public opinion researcher.<ref name="Berelson"> {{cite journal | last = Berelson | first = Bernard | authorlink = Bernard Berelson | year = 1974 | title = In Memoriam: Helen Dinerman, 1920-1974 | journal = Public Opinion Quarterly | volume = 38 | issue = 4 | pages = 640 | doi = 10.1086/268192 | jstor=2748137}}</ref>
== Biography == Born in New York City in 1920, Dinerman received her education at Hunter College and Columbia University.<ref name="Berelson"/> Later, she worked as a researcher in the United States Office of War Information<ref name="News&Notes"> {{cite journal | editor-last = Bivins | editor-first = Joseph T. | year = 1968 | title = News and Notes | journal = Public Opinion Quarterly | volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 525–31 | doi = 10.1086/267633 | jstor=2747654}}</ref> and trained at the Bureau for Applied Social Research,<ref name="Berelson"/> the first academic research centre dedicated to survey research,<ref> {{cite book |author1=Church, Allan H. |author2=Janine Waclawski | title = Designing and Using Organizational Surveys | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zbnzeAR34LcC&q=%22Bureau+for+Applied+Social+Research%22&pg=PA6 | accessdate = January 1, 2008 | year = 1998 | publisher = Gower Publishing | location = | isbn = 978-0-566-07975-7 | pages = 6 }}</ref> founded by Paul Lazarsfeld in 1944.<ref> {{cite web |url = http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/about/ |title = About ISERP |accessdate = January 1, 2008 |publisher = Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080213054517/http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/about/ |archivedate = February 13, 2008 }}</ref> She began working with the International Research Associates in 1948, and became chairman of the firm's executive committee in 1968.<ref name="News&Notes"/>
Dinerman died in Emanuel Hospital<ref> {{cite news | title = Helen Dinerman, Opinion Analyst; Research Specialist Dies-Named to Head World Unit | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D13FD3A5E1A7493C5A81783D85F408785F9 | work = The New York Times | page = 26 | date = August 17, 1974 | accessdate = January 1, 2008 }}</ref> in Portland, Oregon on August 14, 1974, while on holiday with her daughter.<ref name="Berelson"/>
== Legacy == In 1981, the World Association for Public Opinion Research established the Helen Dinerman Award – "in memory of Helen Dinerman's scientific achievements over three decades of public opinion research" – to recognize individuals who have made "significant contributions to survey research methodology".<ref> {{cite web |url = http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/awards.html |title = Awards and Prizes |accessdate = January 1, 2008 |publisher = World Association for Public Opinion Research |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080102024431/http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/awards.html |archivedate = January 2, 2008 }}</ref>
== Selected publications == * {{cite book | author = Lazarsfeld, Paul, and Helen Dinerman | editor = Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Frank M. Stanton | title = Communications Research, 1948–49 | year = 1949 | publisher = Harper & Brothers | location = New York | pages = 73–108 | chapter = Research for Action }} * {{cite journal |author1=Cooper, Eunice |author2=Helen Dinerman | year = 1951 | title = Analysis of the Film "Don't Be a Sucker": A Study in Communication | journal = Public Opinion Quarterly | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | pages = 243–64 | doi = 10.1086/266306 | jstor=2746167}}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dinerman, Helen}} Category:1920 births Category:1974 deaths Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Hunter College alumni Category:People of the United States Office of War Information Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers Category:20th-century American sociologists Category:20th-century American women sociologists
{{US-sociologist-stub}}