Group Experiment and Other Writings - The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany (Hardcover)

During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist attitudes of the Nazi era had weakened to a large degree. Theodor W. Adorno and his Frankfurt School colleagues, who returned in 1949 from the United States, were skeptical. They held that standardized polling was an inadequate and superficial method for exploring such questions. In their view, public opinion is not simply an aggregate of individually held opinions, but is fundamentally a public concept, formed through interaction in conversations and with prevailing attitudes and ideas "in the air." In Group Experiment, edited by Friedrich Pollock, they published their findings on their group discussion experiments that delved deeper into the process of opinion formation. Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick make a case that these experiments are an important missing link in the ontology and methodology of current social-science survey research.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	February 2011
Authors:	Friedrich Pollock • Theodor W Adorno
Editors:	Andrew J. Perrin • Jeffrey K Olick
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-04846-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	0-674-04846-6
Barcode:	9780674048461

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