The Institute’s 1950-51 political-awareness study drew about 1800 Germans into small group discussions

Evidence

In side-rooms of small bars, in hostels, in refugee camps, in canteens at large factories, in bunkers, in clubhouseswherever groups of people were spontaneously gathering and talking to each otherabout 1800 people from every class of society met in groups of mostly eight to sixteen people to discuss the political topics mentioned in the Allied sergeant’s `open letter’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 462

Categorization

• CANDY: Recruiting sociological subjects in bars, bunkers, and refugee camps is a vivid mini-image of early fieldwork.
• XREF: connects to: The group study measured postwar German attitudes across seven test topics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1886; The Frankfurt group pioneered Germany’s group discussion technique for social research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1872; Postwar German public discussion revealed majority anti-democratic and anti-Semitic sentiment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The group study measured postwar German attitudes across seven test topics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1886; The Frankfurt group pioneered Germany’s group discussion technique for social research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1872; Postwar German public discussion revealed majority anti-democratic and anti-Semitic sentiment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887 (+7 more)