Critical sociologists formed a decisive minority tradition in US sociology.

Evidence

Lynd, like Thorstein Veblen before him and C. Wright Mills and David Riesman after him, represented a minority tendency in US sociology which was critical of society and which contributed decisively to the public success of sociology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1493

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader tradition of critical sociology from Veblen through Mills and Riesman — connects to the reader’s Critical Theory synthesis of how the Frankfurt School related to native US critical traditions. — connects to: Fact-gathering sociology without critical theory becomes politically irrelevent — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2413

Broader Connections

• Fact-gathering sociology without critical theory becomes politically irrelevent #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2413