American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology
Evidence
The project was an obvious choice, because opinion research was one of the American imports which had aroused keen interest in West Germany, and also because education for democracy was still a central element of American policy there. … It saw itself as semi-American, and most of the finance for this first study came from HICOG. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1865
Categorization
- XREF: Continues ch64’s theme of American occupiers funding empirical sociology to promote democracy in Germany. — 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; Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2047 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- US occupation authorities funded German sociology as a tool for democratization
#corroborates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1861 - American cold-war occupation policy funded the Frankfurt School’s first postwar empirical study
#exemplifies(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1865 - Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding
#contradicts(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2047 - Old-guard German sociology remained abstractly opposed to empirical research after the war
#qualifies(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1926 - The state-phobia of the postwar period shaped neo-liberal governmental practices in Germany and America
#expands(0.70) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 35