Structural Transformation gave substance to administered world and public opinion theory

Evidence

The study thus showed an associate of the Institute attempting for the first time to present the theoretical conception of society as a whole that would have room for the concept of public opinion' that had been proposed in the introduction to Group Experiment. It was also an attempt to give substantial theoretical content to Horkheimer and Adorno's formulas about the administered world’ and about the way in which ever weaker individuals were being delivered into the hands of organizations. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2361

Categorization

• XREF: Places Habermas’s public sphere work as the concrete fulfillment of Horkheimer and Adorno’s administered-world critique. — connects to: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2361