The Institute’s French 1933 survey sampled unemployed white-collar and skilled-worker families

Evidence

In 1933 a questionnaire was initiated in France among urban families in which the husband belonged to the category of white-collar or skilled workers and had been unemployed for at least six months. Apart from questions on the job situation, income and accommodation, there were also questions on the use of leisure time, about changes in the relationships between members of the family as a result of unemployment, and about the favourable or unfavourable consequences of unemployment for individual family members. Finally, there were queries on their responses to a series of specific questions (for example, What are the causes of the crisis?' or Who are the greatest men of the present day?’). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 558

Categorization

• QUESTION: Wonder whether this French survey’s interview design influenced later, more famous questionnaire methods in Authoritarian Personality.