Without materialist analysis, the study settled for psychological grounding in individuals.
Evidence
If the objective spirit conjured up by organizing group discussions was not to be connected with a materialist theory of society, an analysis of objective factors, then the least they could do was to provide it with a social-psychological basis in the `living’ individuals studied. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 464
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies what could count as ‘materialist’ analysis: linking the objective spirit to society’s objective factors.
- XREF: connects to: The study targeted socially prescribed consciousness, not individual opinions; Editors had stripped the study’s socio-political analysis down to psychology alone — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 676; A science can rest on psychological data yet serve non-psychological aims — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 207 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The study targeted socially prescribed consciousness, not individual opinions; Editors had stripped the study’s socio-political analysis down to psychology alone — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 676; A science can rest on psychological data yet serve non-psychological aims — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 207 (+1 more)