Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany

by Theodor W. Adorno and Friedrich Pollock

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048466
• ISBN13: 9780674048461
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"