The study balanced expanding its ideological coverage against contracting its quantitative procedures.

Evidence

Expansion was exemplified in the attempt to bring more and more aspects of antidemocratic ideology into the developing picture and in the attempt to explore enough aspects of the potentially antidemocratic personality so that there was some grasp of the totality. Contraction took place continuously in the quantitative procedures as increasing theoretical clarity permitted a boiling down so that the same crucial relationships could be demonstrated with briefer techniques. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 730

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The expansion-contraction dynamic reveals the tension between grasping personality ‘totality’ and achieving crisp scientific measurement — a tension at the heart of the Frankfurt School’s empirical turn.
• XREF: connects to: Research scales can be framed to test hypotheses about ideology — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1001; Expanding the interpretive horizon transforms the object of study itself. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1738

Broader Connections

• Expanding the interpretive horizon transforms the object of study itself. #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1738
• Research scales can be framed to test hypotheses about ideology #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1001