Habermas’s student study fused Adorno’s method with Popitz-style ‘images of society’ analysis

Evidence

The wide-ranging, axiomatic quality of the introduction, its combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis (with the latter predominating) and the assurance with which it defended a phenomenological methodology were reminiscent of Adorno. The systematic treatment given to studies in political science and constitutional law by bourgeois' scholars, and the replacement of depth-psychological and social-psychological interpretations of the interviewees' responses with an exposition of their images of society’ (following in the steps of the research on workers done by Heinrich Popitz and his colleagues)this was all new. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 576

Categorization

• XREF: Links Adorno’s phenomenological, axiomatic style and Popitz’s workers research to Habermas’s early empirical work in Frankfurt. — connects to: Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2323; Habermas synthesized many intellectual sources into a novel account of society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 602; Habermas’s theory of society was assembled from philosophy, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 602 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2323; Habermas synthesized many intellectual sources into a novel account of society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 602; Habermas’s theory of society was assembled from philosophy, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 602 (+1 more)