Adorno derived F-scale items by translating Horkheimer’s anti-Semitism theory into questions

Evidence

In the middle of December he received the bundle of papers with the title F-scale' from Adorno, with documents from Berkeley on the new questionnaire. This was all initial material for the questionnaire. The questions suggested were partly still to be reformulated and put in a form which was comprehensible and psychologically suitable for those being questioned. Adorno himself had worked out eighty to a hundred questions, a number of which he had distilled out of the “Elements of Anti-Semitism” by a kind of translation process’. The extensive, unfinished material on the questionnaire discouraged Horkheimer. He was afraid, he wrote to Adorno, that the questionnaire, which we wanted to keep short and quite simple, is becoming far too complex and sophisticated again to be able to be used in any sort of group. Developments here in the Committee largely depend on us being able to use a single questionnaire to carry out samples in socially significant groups in various cities. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 396

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s earlier Labour Study and to the group experiment of Chapter 18, where the Berkeley group is named as the model for New York and Chicago parallel groups. — connects to: Adorno designed the F-scale to detect anti-Semites without mentioning Jews — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1573; Adorno and Horkheimer linked Odyssey sacrifice themes to anti-Semitism’s psychology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1355; Horkheimer subordinated empirical anti-Semitism research to abstract theory as mere illustration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 342 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno designed the F-scale to detect anti-Semites without mentioning Jews — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1573; Adorno and Horkheimer linked Odyssey sacrifice themes to anti-Semitism’s psychology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1355; Horkheimer subordinated empirical anti-Semitism research to abstract theory as mere illustration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 342 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno drafted up to a hundred questionnaire items by translating texts into F-scale questions #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1577
• Horkheimer subordinated empirical anti-Semitism research to abstract theory as mere illustration #complicates (0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 342
• Horkheimer’s dominance paralyzed Adorno’s empirical and institutional work into the 1960s #complicates (0.71) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520