Critical research that never returns findings to its subjects dominates them from above.

Evidence

Would he not have to have a sharper awareness of the need to extend critical social research' beyond methods designed to penetrate deep structures, and beyond the combination of theory and empirical research, including at least some long-term feedback of empirical research into information provided to those who were being questioned and analysed? Since this seems unrealistic, it was possible that the Critical Theorists were content to carry on critical social research’ above the heads of those being questioned and analysed, even in the long term. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 479

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: what would a critical sociology owe the people it studies? The feedback gap as a test of whether research is liberation or extraction.
• QUESTION: Why was returning results to the researched treated as unrealistic in 1950s German social research?
• XREF: connects to: Researchers sometimes extract Indigenous knowledge and never return it to its source. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 251; Critical social research differs from administrative research in questioning subjects’ object status. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1939; Changing researchers’ self-perception cannot substitute for social conditions absorbing research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 608 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Researchers sometimes extract Indigenous knowledge and never return it to its source. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 251; Critical social research differs from administrative research in questioning subjects’ object status. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1939; Changing researchers’ self-perception cannot substitute for social conditions absorbing research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 608 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Changing researchers’ self-perception cannot substitute for social conditions absorbing research. #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 608