Empirical social research must apply its own methods to cure its inadequacies.

Evidence

Empirical social research is faced with the task of using the methods it has developed to overcome the deeper causes of its own inadequacies and sharpen social research into a tool of genuinely social knowledge . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 498

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes critical theory’s reflexive mandate — theory must turn its critique on itself, not merely on its object. — connects to: Each field of research must develop its own method rather than borrow natural-science method — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1560; Critical social science must build self-reflection into its data-collection methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 608; Sociology’s fixation on methodology has displaced theory and overstates the reliability of empiric research. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 41
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Each field of research must develop its own method rather than borrow natural-science method — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1560; Critical social science must build self-reflection into its data-collection methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 608; Sociology’s fixation on methodology has displaced theory and overstates the reliability of empiric research. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 41