Fromm saw the workers questionnaire as a methodological proving ground

Evidence

3 A third possible result, and one which can certainly be achieved, is that this excellent questionnaire can really be used to show what can and cannot be achieved methodologically by means of questionnaires. A number of methodological refinements will be applied to the processing of the questionnaires which are quite new, and which will certainly make publication useful from this point of view as well. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 698

Categorization

• SEED: Questionnaire studies as methodological self-critique is a rich angle: how a tool becomes its own metascience.
• XREF: connects to: Fromm’s questionnaire method inferred unconscious character structure from the whole of each person’s answers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 699; Fromm pioneered a psychoanalytic reading of verbatim questionnaire responses — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 391; Fromm’s worker study was the Institute’s first empirical application of Critical Theory — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 390 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Fromm pioneered a psychoanalytic reading of verbatim questionnaire responses #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 391
• Fromm’s worker study was the Institute’s first empirical application of Critical Theory #expands (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 390
• Fromm’s working-class study distributed 3300 questionnaires with 271 items in 1929 #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 227
• German industrial management commissioned social research to uncover workers’ underlying opinion formation #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2059
• The indirect measurement method required a long questionnaire to yield statistical soundness #expands (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1579