Political events isolated German social research from the field’s international growth.

Evidence

Social research, in all its aspects, and particularly in the areas of research on the structure of society, on human relationships and modes of behaviour within the labour process, of opinion research and the practical application of sociological and psychological knowledge in the last few decades, has received a great boost. Owing to political events, Germany has not been able to participate in this to the extent that might have been desired. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 456

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marks the range of disciplines the Institute claimed: labour-process research, opinion research, and applied sociology/psychology.
• XREF: connects to: Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1852; Geographic isolation limited the imagined simultaneity needed for continent-wide nationalism. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 238; Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2047
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1852; Geographic isolation limited the imagined simultaneity needed for continent-wide nationalism. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 238; Post-war German sociology ignored American social theory and its empirical grounding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2047