Institute reframed interdisciplinary training as service to industry and state

Evidence

Sociologists with a diploma qualification are not narrow specialists, but people capable of linking solid knowledge of specialist areas with an insight into present-day social questions and into the interrelationship of the whole. They meet a need felt by an ever-increasing number of official bodies, by industrial groups such as boards of directors and trade unions, and also by institutions such as radio and the press. The high standards required in this examination are intended to make it possible to select students who are genuinely capable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2109

Categorization

• XREF: Completes the earlier claim that financial dependence forced the Institute to adopt the contract strategy it despised.