Old-guard German sociology remained abstractly opposed to empirical research after the war

Evidence

Leopold von Wiese, the seventy-five-year-old doyen of German sociology, had agreed to preside at the conference. His opening speech offered a taste of the abstract, unworldly reserve of pre-war German sociology in the face of empirical social research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1926

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Frankfurt empirical research on family and authority ceased entirely by the late 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1025; American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865; Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2047 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2047
• Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1852
• Postwar German philosophy remained apolitical and untouched by Nazi history #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1914
• German cultural predominance was abstract prestige, not structural influence #expands (0.72)