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‹i›Group Experiment‹/i› and Other Writings : The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany / Friedrich Pollock, Jeffrey K Olick, Andrew J Perrin, Theodor Adorno.

Pollock, Friedrich, author.; Adorno, Theodor W., contributor.; Adorno, Theodor, author.; Böhm, Franz, contributor.; Olick, Jeffrey K., contributor.; Perrin, Andrew J, author.; Perrin, Andrew J., contributor.
2022
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Title
‹i›Group Experiment‹/i› and Other Writings : The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany / Friedrich Pollock, Jeffrey K Olick, Andrew J Perrin, Theodor Adorno.
Author
Pollock, Friedrich, author.
ISBN
9780674276901
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674276901
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (268 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674276901 doi
Summary
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.
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Adorno, Theodor W., contributor.
Adorno, Theodor, author.
Böhm, Franz, contributor.
Olick, Jeffrey K., contributor.
Perrin, Andrew J, author.
Perrin, Andrew J., contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Original Publication Information
Translators' Introduction
Foreword
Introduction
1 The Group Discussion Method
2 The Organization of the Discussion Materials
3 Quantitative Analyses
4 Integration Phenomena in Group Discussions
Afterword
Appendix A. Findings of a Study of the Silent Participants
Appendix B. From a Monograph on "Aspects of Language"
Final Version of the Basic Stimulus (Colburn Letter)
Opinion Research and Publicness
Notes
Index

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