The Institute abandoned its announced program of large-scale empirical collective research

Evidence

The various projects on the family, authority and unemployment, which had been drafted as continuations of Studies on Authority and the Family, had slowly ground to a halt. The collection and analysis of empirical materials on as large a scale as possible, which Horkheimer had announced in 1935 in the foreword to Studies on Authority and the Family, had failed to take place. There is no evidence to show that there was even any development of the plan, announced by Horkheimer in the foreword, for a continuation of collective research work. The `fusion of constructive and empirical methods’ seemed in practice to have been abandoned completely. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 268

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters on Studies on Authority and the Family and Horkheimer’s 1935 programmatic foreword — directly tracks the promise versus the outcome. — connects to: Institute research projects on family and unemployment quietly collapsed unfinished; The Institute abandoned empirical research at the end of the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1035; Adorno abandoned decisive involvement in the Institute’s empirical projects after the group study — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institute research projects on family and unemployment quietly collapsed unfinished; The Institute abandoned empirical research at the end of the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1035; Adorno abandoned decisive involvement in the Institute’s empirical projects after the group study — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• The Institute abandoned empirical research at the end of the 1930s #corroborates (0.94) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1035
• The Institute’s worker research stalled partly out of reaction to troubling early results #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 474
• The Institute abandoned orthodox Marxist ideology critique by the forties #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 779