Lazarsfeld explicitly reconciled theory-first analysis with eventual empirical listener research

Evidence

It is exactly as a stronghold of theoretical analysis preceding any research that I am looking forward to your coming. On the other hand, we shall have to understand that you have to end up finally with actual research among listeners, although in many cases we might have to stop with the formulation of the theoretical problem and discussions of techniques to answer them, simply for reasons of time. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 994

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Yale behaviorists blended Hullian learning theory with psychoanalysis and Marxism — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 333; Lazarsfeld’s methodological flexibility allowed reconciliation of radical research with institutional demands — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1000

Broader Connections

• Yale behaviorists blended Hullian learning theory with psychoanalysis and Marxism #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 333