Horkheimer outsourced the Newark family study to methodologist Lazarsfeld

Evidence

The university was small and poorly off, and the director of the research group was obliged to find half of his salary for himself. Lazarsfeld had to keep the research group going by finding research contracts, just as he had done in Vienna. In this situation, Horkheimer’s Institute came to his help by having part of its work carried out at the Newark research centre and paying Lazarsfeld’s small staff for supervisory duties. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 682 (#expands, via linked claim)

Co-operation became particularly close during Lazarsfeld’s period in Newark. He and his assistantsin particular Herta Herzog, who had already worked with him in Vienna and was to become his second wifeadvised the Institute on questions of methodology and assisted with technicalities connected with data. The Institute listed Lazarsfeld in its prospectuses as one of its research associates. In 1938 Lazarsfeld, who had been asked the year before by the Rockefeller Foundation to undertake a large-scale radio research project', told Horkheimer he was interested in offering the directorship of the musical part of the project to Adorno. He thus gave Horkheimer the chance to bring Adorno to New York. Lazarsfeld became a professor at Columbia University in 1940 and moved his research group there, and the mutual co-operation between him and Horkheimer continued into the 1940s, when they agreed on a common strategy for dealing with their financial sponsors. During the Institute's period of exile in the United States, Lazarsfeld served as a mediator between it and the academic environment there. Equally, Lazarsfeld's collaboration with an institute of Critical Theorists from Frankfurt gave him the feeling that he had not entirely betrayed his Austrian Marxist past, even now that he was fully integrated into the American academic scene. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 687</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt Institute subsidized Lazarsfeld’s Newark research group via contract work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 682; Lazarsfeld’s methodological collaboration helped the exiled Frankfurt Institute enter American academia — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 687

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt Institute subsidized Lazarsfeld’s Newark research group via contract work #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 682
• Lazarsfeld’s methodological collaboration helped the exiled Frankfurt Institute enter American academia #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 687