Frankfurt Institute for Social Research

The Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung), the German research institution associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, known for its interdisciplinary work in social research, psychoanalysis, and Marxist-oriented theory. It housed affiliates such as psychoanalytic and sociological researchers and famously relocated its activities to the United States during the Nazi era before returning to Frankfurt after World War II.

Claims that use this term

• The Frankfurt Institute of Psychoanalysis housed itself within the Institute of Social Research.
• The Frankfurt Institute subsidized Lazarsfeld’s Newark research group via contract work
• The Frankfurt Institute actively financed and sponsored members’ emigration to America.
• The Frankfurt Institute realized an earlier Vienna social-research plan
• The Frankfurt Institute enforced methodological uniformity from its outset.
• The Frankfurt Institute suppressed its labor study over methodological disagreements with Lazarsfeld