Postwar German empirical social research trained a new sociological generation through practical field work

Evidence

The project therefore at the same time represented real-life training in empirical social research for the new generation of sociologists. This was typical of the beginnings of social research in the first decade after the war. The Institute’s inquiries for a pilot study investigating significant aspects of German political awareness were carried out in the winter of 1950-1 in the municipal and rural districts of Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich and Augsburg. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ material on the Institute’s group-experiment and workers’ studies, the applied wing of Critical Theory. — connects to: Building empirical social research without institutional backing required entrepreneurship plus conformity; The Institute’s 1950-51 political-awareness study drew about 1800 Germans into small group discussions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 462; American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Building empirical social research without institutional backing required entrepreneurship plus conformity; The Institute’s 1950-51 political-awareness study drew about 1800 Germans into small group discussions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 462; American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865 (+8 more)