Anti-ideological fact-finding denied the powerless any route to theory

Evidence

Under the guise of the Adornoesque slogan, The more rigorously sociology, as free from illusions as it can possibly be, states what is the caseeven when this contradicts what those concerned wish to hearthe better it serves its purpose for humanity', there was a confusing approximation to the views of Schelsky and his slogan about sociology being a search for reality’, an anti-ideological investigation of social facts. This was confusing and dangerous because it failed to establish any right to pose fundamental questions or offer insights into the wider significance of interpretation and theory to those who had neither power nor privilege. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 514

Categorization

• DEFINE: Schelsky’s positivist slogan ‘search for reality’ is here defined by its political effect — it forfeits the right to pose fundamental questions.
• XREF: Doppelt reads against Adorno’s own late position while echoing the Frankfurt School’s positivist dispute and its critique of value-free science. — connects to: Remaining silent when theory is dismissed is complicity in anti-intellectualism; Anti-theory stances themselves rest on unacknowledged patriarchal theory — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 148; Discourse exceeds ideology by refusing the true-false distinction about facts (+3 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘The Positivist Dispute Went to the Factory Floor’ — how 1950s industrial sociology’s refusal of theory quietly stripped workers of a vocabulary for their own exploitation.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Remaining silent when theory is dismissed is complicity in anti-intellectualism; Anti-theory stances themselves rest on unacknowledged patriarchal theory — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 148; Discourse exceeds ideology by refusing the true-false distinction about facts (+3 more)