Adorno abandoned decisive involvement in the Institute’s empirical projects after the group study
Evidence
Having gone into his work with so much momentum and with the idea of a critical, empirical form of social research before him, he was never involved in any decisive way in the projects at the Institute of Social Research after the group study on West German political awareness. He only processed the research reports and wrote introductions or forewords to themand he did this without the benefit of any audience, since Gruppenexperiment and Betriebsklima were, for a decade, the only publications of Institute research to appear in the `Frankfurt Contributions to Sociology’ series. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520
Categorization
- QUESTION: Which specific projects did Adorno decline or withdraw from after Gruppenexperiment, and did he formally retain a research-director title?
- XREF: connects to: The Institute abandoned its announced program of large-scale empirical collective research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 268; Adorno interpreted interview subjects he never met, maintaining strict detachment from his research object. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 440; Adorno never abandoned the ideal of critical empirical research despite rejecting established methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2120 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute abandoned its announced program of large-scale empirical collective research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 268; Adorno interpreted interview subjects he never met, maintaining strict detachment from his research object. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 440; Adorno never abandoned the ideal of critical empirical research despite rejecting established methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2120 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno never abandoned the ideal of critical empirical research despite rejecting established methods
#complicates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2120