Horkheimer redirected the study from the family toward authority within the family

Evidence

I believe I have discovered, at the very last minute, that the plan for the publication there [in Geneva] has been incorrectly concerned with the family as such instead of with the question of authority in the family. Such a publication, on the basis of the materials of all sorts which we have, would be worse than unscientific. As far as I can see at the moment, the most we can publish for the time being is a volume of 250 pages, in which Marcuse could perhaps write about the status of the problem in the literature (using Sternheim’s report and libraries here), Pollock or an economist suggested by him could write the section on economics, Fromm could do the psychological section, and you, in constant touch with me, could do the general theoretical (`sociological’) part. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 602

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the object ‘family as such’ from ‘authority in the family’ — a crucial redefinition that shifted the study’s theoretical focus toward socialization and legitimation.
• XREF: connects to: Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority; Overtly punitive family socialization was theorized to produce authoritarian personality — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 398

Broader Connections

• Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority #expands (0.85)
• Overtly punitive family socialization was theorized to produce authoritarian personality #exemplifies (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 398