Lynd welcomed Frankfurt scholars as reinforcements for his own sociology.

Evidence

Lynd apparently did not see the scholars from Frankfurt as potential competition of any sort, but rather as reinforcements for the kind of social research which he himself stood for. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 580

Categorization

• XREF: Explains how empirical American sociology and Frankfurt critical theory initially found common ground before later divergence; relevant to institutional-history synthesis.