Sociology has always addressed questions that empirical-analytical research cannot answer.

Evidence

Questions concerning this realm of experience, because they cannot be answered by technically utilizable information, are not capable of explanation by empirical-analytical research. Nevertheless, since its beginnings in the eighteenth century, sociology tried to discuss these very questions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 602

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the positivist dispute and to the book’s recurring theme of sociology’s interpretive rather than purely scientific vocation. — connects to: Scientific observation always occurs from within a specific social universe of discourse. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 584
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Scientific observation always occurs from within a specific social universe of discourse. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 584