American occupation officials promoted opinion research as a tool of democratic function.
Evidence
Professor Leo P. Crespi from the US High Commissioner’s opinion research department, whose questionnaire results were usually `top secret’, spoke emphasizing the significance of opinion research in getting social institutions to function in a genuinely democratic way. Professor P.L. Fegiz from the Milan DOXA Institute sketched out a vision of a European union in which questionnaires on the habits and tastes of European consumers would make mass production of the products most in demand as cheap as possible. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1926
Categorization
- XREF: The US High Commissioner’s ‘Reactions Analysis’ operation parallels later CIA-MIT opinion research and German re-education programs; links to Frankfurt School critiques of instrumental reason. — connects to: American occupiers funded empirical sociology to promote democracy in Germany. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; US occupation authorities funded German sociology as a tool for democratization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; German industrial management commissioned social research to uncover workers’ underlying opinion formation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2059 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- US occupation authorities funded German sociology as a tool for democratization
#corroborates(0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1861 - German industrial management commissioned social research to uncover workers’ underlying opinion formation
#expands(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2059 - The Berkeley authoritarianism study repeated the Weimar worker study’s instinctual-structure question for American democrats
#qualifies(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1590