LECTURE NINE

According to Adorno in Lecture Nine, what is the fundamental issue with the presupposed separation between method and subject matter in sociology?

In Lecture Nine, which sociologist does Adorno credit with first articulating the idea that there is not the same objective antithesis between the knowing subject and the object in sociology as there is in the natural sciences?

What example does Adorno use to illustrate that even unsystematic and aimless research can yield useful findings if the material is rich and the researcher has imagination?

Adorno describes a fundamental 'aporia' in empirical sociology as the choice between two types of knowledge. What are they?

What is Adorno's criticism of the Guttman Scale in comparison to multidimensional scales like the F-Scale?

According to Adorno's discussion in Lecture Nine, what is the key difference between Max Weber's and Emile Durkheim's approaches to sociology?

What term does Adorno use for Durkheim's sociology, based on the idea that social facts should be treated as 'things'?

In Lecture Nine, what psychological reason does Adorno suggest for the modern 'fetish of certainty' and obsession with methodology?

Which thinker's concept of 'instrumental reason' does Adorno invoke to explain how the means of thought have become reified and independent of their purpose?

On the issue of 'value freedom,' how did Durkheim's position differ from Max Weber's, according to Adorno?

What does Adorno conclude about the attempt to abolish concepts in sociology and reduce them to mere tokens or abbreviations for facts?

Which Kantian phrase does Adorno find highly topical in relation to the 'problem of value' in sociology?

What is Adorno's main objection to the idea of supplementing quantitative surveys with 'clinical interviews' to solve the quantitative-qualitative aporia?

In Lecture Nine, Adorno contrasts the contemporary positivistic standpoint of sociologists like Scheuch and Dahrendorf with which earlier generation?

What is the date recorded for Lecture Nine?

Adorno argues that the overvaluation of method is an international phenomenon. How does he characterize its manifestation in Germany versus America?

What does Adorno claim is the 'only productive knowledge' in the face of an operational, tautological ideal of methodology?

Adorno suggests that the term 'value' in social sciences is itself an expression of reification. From which domain does he say it originally found its way into social sciences?

Which two contemporary sociologists does Adorno mention as opponents of a dialectical conception of society, between whom he still observes deep-seated differences?

Adorno criticizes the 'absolute primacy of method' for curtailing what he calls 'unregimented experience'. What does he mean by this?

What does Adorno identify as the basic law for any sensible sociological inquiry today?

Adorno mentions that academics, when called upon to offer an opinion on a subject they do not understand, often resort to what?

Adorno's approach, which contrasts with empirical sociology that attributes findings merely to individuals, regards seemingly particular facts as what?

Who is the late colleague from Berkeley Adorno mentions, who developed a refined method for clinical studies on the authoritarian personality but then problematically tried to place it in a quantitative schema?

What does Adorno argue is the ultimate goal for students who are rebelling against the reification of the world and consciousness?

Adorno claims that the 'regular feature among sociologists that each of them calls his predecessor a metaphysician' is a recurring phenomenon. He traces this back to the objections raised by which thinker against his teacher?

Adorno claims that the 'regular feature among sociologists that each of them calls his predecessor a metaphysician' is a recurring phenomenon. He traces the objections that Comte raised against Saint-Simon as reappearing in which later sociologist's critique?

What is Adorno's ultimate position on the debate between 'value freedom' and 'values' in sociology?

What controversy does Adorno refer to that involved Habermas and Albert?

According to Adorno, what ancient demand finds a certain justification in the subject matter of sociology?

What does Adorno state is the key benefit of quantitative knowledge in sociology?

What is the primary danger Adorno sees in the 'fetishization of method'?

Adorno uses an analogy to describe the continuum of obsession with reified means. What are the two ends of this continuum?

What is Adorno's reason for being skeptical of the idea of a single 'only true method' in sociology?

In Lecture Nine, Adorno describes a lecture being cancelled due to an 'overtaxed' microphone and other issues. What specific event led to the microphone going 'on strike'?

What does Adorno argue is the consequence of the inherent tendency of recent sociology to do away with the autonomous concept?

Adorno claims that the 'only right course' in a field like sociology, which forms a 'bad infinity', is to do what when faced with a subject one does not understand?

What is the consequence of the qualitative method in sociology, according to Adorno's description of the field's 'aporia'?

Whose concept of 'the transcendental loci' does Adorno use to refer to disintegrated fixed reference points in philosophy and society?

What does Adorno claim is the primary intellectual task when conducting a sociological investigation?

Which two major works of methodology from the previous generation of sociologists does Adorno cite as contradicting each other on decisive points?

What is Adorno's critique of the idea that American methodologist George Lundberg was a true positivist?

Adorno describes a 'bad infinity' in sociology. What does this term refer to in the context of Lecture Nine?

What is Adorno's final statement in Lecture Nine, hinting at the topic for the next lecture?

What does Adorno say is the characteristic of 'interpretative sociology' as introduced by Max Weber?

Which two of the listed sociologists does Adorno claim had a 'profound disagreement' about method?

What, according to Adorno, is the problem with relying on the idea of 'knowing the object from the inside' in sociology?

Adorno states that in almost all empirical-sociological questions, one almost always faces a situation of what?

What is the second point of difference Adorno highlights between Max Weber and Emile Durkheim?

Adorno argues that a 'thoroughly devious and malicious person' might suspect that the scientific demand for an unbroken continuity of sociological knowledge is itself infected by what?

In his critique of the fetishization of method, Adorno argues that knowledge itself becomes 'determined operationally'. What does he mean by this?