Frankfurt empirical research on family and authority ceased entirely by the late 1930s

Evidence

The various projects on the family, authority and unemployment, which had been drafted as continuations of Studies on Authority and the Family, had slowly ground to a halt. … The `fusion of constructive and empirical methods’ seemed in practice to have been abandoned completely. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1025

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institute abandoned empirical research at the end of the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1035; The Frankfurt School’s promised empirical program quietly collapsed by the late 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1025; Old-guard German sociology remained abstractly opposed to empirical research after the war — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1926 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Institute abandoned empirical research at the end of the 1930s #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1035
• The Frankfurt School’s promised empirical program quietly collapsed by the late 1930s #corroborates (0.93) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1025
• Old-guard German sociology remained abstractly opposed to empirical research after the war #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1926
• Horkheimer’s 1951 reopening speech abandoned the empirical research program of 1931 #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1906