The Institut planned to teach Americans social science techniques to counter German speculation

Evidence

By April, 1947, however, there were signs that Horkheimer had begun to weaken. If there was to be a study of the effects of American antiprejudice programs on Germans, he wrote Lowenthal, a branch in Frankfurt could be useful. Moreover, the Institut might teach American social scientific techniques to German students, thereby combatting the overly speculative bias of traditional German academics. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 846

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lazarsfeld blamed the Institut’s German-language publishing for isolating it from American academia — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 657; American occupiers funded empirical sociology to promote democracy in Germany. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; Lazarsfeld’s methodological collaboration helped the exiled Frankfurt Institute enter American academia — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 687