Critical social theory rejects deductive and official scientific models of knowledge

Evidence

It denied that any non-deductive theory could be an adequate way of understanding contradictory, antagonistic societies. It denied that the experience of individuals could be more correct than results established through the official system of organized science. It denied the insight that sociological evaluation could not be neutralized by introspective knowledge, but was on the contrary constitutive of knowledge in some way. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 598

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies the positivist epistemological commitments that Adorno’s critical theory of society is defined against: deduction, official science, and neutralized evaluation.
• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School reception of Popper’s logic of social science and to earlier material on ideology-critique and nature-domination. — connects to: Empirical social science findings are dismissed as mere opinion; Critical Theory rejected falsifiability because social truths imply possible alternatives to present order — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 302; Rejecting data fundamentalism is central to decolonizing social knowledge — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 639 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Empirical social science findings are dismissed as mere opinion; Critical Theory rejected falsifiability because social truths imply possible alternatives to present order — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 302; Rejecting data fundamentalism is central to decolonizing social knowledge — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 639 (+4 more)