Empirical social science findings are dismissed as mere opinion

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Schmölders rejected Hayek’s deductive economics in favor of empirical social-science methods — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 329; Operational precision in empirical research sacrifices what is socially relevant. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 497; Abandoning critique reduces sociology to fact-collection that undermines its own insights — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 598 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Critical social theory rejects deductive and official scientific models of knowledge #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 598