Gollin, Albert E.

The Bureau of Social Science Research, which existed from l950-l986, was a non-profit research agency created to conduct research in basic and applied social science. The overall purposes of the Bureau were the development of social theory and research methods and their application to contemporary social problems. The Bureau's principle areas of interest included mass communication, urban studies, occupational and military sociology, higher and vocational education, social welfare, criminology and criminal justice administration, and the social research enterprise.

Albert E. Gollin (1930-l999), a media sociologist, was a research associate of the Bureau of Social Science Research and conducted sociological studies of the March on Washington, August 28, l963 and the Poor People's Campaign, May-August 1968. The goal of the two studies was to provide a sociological analysis of the events and the media coverage given to both those who planned the events and those who participated in them. As a media sociologist, Gollin was interested in the role of the media as it covered, related to and influenced the MOW and the PPC.