Habermas’s public sphere study asks whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized.

Evidence

Is it possible to democratize industrial societies that are based on the welfare state? That is one way of phrasing the question that lay at the heart of the study, which was subtitled `An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 584

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2361; Habermas’s early large studies embodied a materialist theory promoting radically democratic thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2330; Habermas conceived revolution as gradual repoliticization of a dried-up public sphere — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2656 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2361; Habermas’s early large studies embodied a materialist theory promoting radically democratic thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2330; Habermas conceived revolution as gradual repoliticization of a dried-up public sphere — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2656 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2361