American empirical methods were adopted reluctantly and later carried back to Germany

Evidence

The most difficult intellectual adjustment, as we shall see later, involved coordinating the philosophically grounded social research practiced by the Institut with the rigorous antispeculative bias of American social science. The use of American empirical techniques that its members learned in exile was an important lesson brought back to Germany after the war, but these skills had not been acquired without considerable hesitancy. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the coming chapters on the Institute’s empirical turn (authority and family studies, Lazarsfeld radio project). — connects to: Methodological experience softened Adorno’s early hostility to American empirical techniques — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 671; Horkheimer sought to fuse European critical theory with American empirical methods — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1520; Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2047

Broader Connections

• Methodological experience softened Adorno’s early hostility to American empirical techniques #corroborates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 671
• Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding #corroborates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2047
• Horkheimer sought to fuse European critical theory with American empirical methods #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1520