Psychology’s social function now outweighs its scientific value.

Evidence

Page 585 also note that the scientific value of psychology is today almost negligible in comparison with its significance as a function of society, and that psychologists have thus, in a very deep sense, become the officials and agents of society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 613

Categorization

• SHARE: A pointed one-liner for someone who follows the Frankfurt School’s critique of the social sciences as instruments of administration.
• XREF: Echoes Adorno and Horkheimer’s critique of sociology as administrative rather than emancipatory knowledge, central to the Institute’s positivist dispute. — connects to: Psychology has replaced religion and ritual as society’s norm-creating force. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2466; Popularized psychology has replaced religious and institutional ritual in shaping human instinct
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychology has replaced religion and ritual as society’s norm-creating force. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2466; Popularized psychology has replaced religious and institutional ritual in shaping human instinct