Grünberg held that ideology drives all research but self-examination disciplines it

Evidence

Just as straightforward as this argumentation was the comment with which Grünberg tried to allay the suspicion that he was committed to a dogma. Everyone was guided by ideology; ideology was the very driving force of scientific research. What was required was `incessant self-examination to see whether mistakes may have been made in the choice of starting-point and goal, or on the path between the two, or in the way in which it has been followed, i.e. in the method of procedure’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 98

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s later, more famous critique of ideology and value-free science — the seeds of Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s positions. — connects to: Horkheimer’s Marxism was more historically self-reflective than Grunberg’s — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 148; Methodological self-consciousness frees scholars from inherited ideological frameworks — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 827

Broader Connections

• Methodological self-consciousness frees scholars from inherited ideological frameworks #corroborates (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 827
• Horkheimer’s Marxism was more historically self-reflective than Grunberg’s #qualifies (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 148