Collaborating with Critical Theorists let Lazarsfeld feel he had not betrayed his Marxist past.

Evidence

These impressions were not entirely accurate. What was genuinely characteristic of Lazarsfeld was that his delight in technicalitiesin collaborative social-psychological research in which a multiplicity of methods could be used to find the answers to questions that had been reduced into checkable itemsmade it easy for him to reconcile his own scholarly interests, despite their unconventionality, with the expectations both of his clients and of the academic system. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1000 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lazarsfeld’s methodological flexibility allowed reconciliation of radical research with institutional demands — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1000; Fromm valued Lazarsfeld’s labor while doubting his psychological depth

Broader Connections

• Lazarsfeld’s methodological flexibility allowed reconciliation of radical research with institutional demands #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1000