LECTURE SIXTEEN

In Lecture Sixteen, what does Adorno identify as the 'central difficulty' of sociology itself?

What distinction, originally from Paul Lazarsfeld, does Adorno use to contrast two opposing conceptions of communications research?

According to Adorno, how does 'administrative research' view human beings?

Why does Adorno criticize Rene König's attempt to differentiate between sociology and social philosophy?

What is Adorno's main thesis regarding the strict division between economics and sociology?

When sociology restricts itself to interpersonal elements and disregards economic processes, what fundamental aspect of society does it ignore, according to Adorno?

According to Adorno, what is the 'objective ideological function' of the strict academic division of labor with regard to sociology?

What does Adorno claim is the consequence of the true application of a critical, dialectical theory of society?

What does Adorno suggest is lost in the 'gap' between a mathematized economics and a sociology focused only on interpersonal relations?

Why did Marx have a 'violent aversion to the word sociology,' according to Adorno's analysis in this lecture?

Adorno argues that a technocratic sociology, when applied to society as a whole, repeats a certain process. What is that process?

What does Adorno see as the main flaw in the work of even socially critical sociologists like the late C. Wright Mills?

What is Adorno's advice to the student movement regarding its focus for university reform?

Adorno argues that the separation from history is a further symptom of sociology's reification. Which two thinkers does he cite as examples where systematic and historical categories were intertwined?

What does Adorno identify as the decisive fact that is 'expelled from economics' when it rejects history, sociology, and philosophy?

What is the primary reason Adorno gives for his claim that a true application of critical theory must not equate society as subject with society as object?

Adorno mentions that the term 'political economy' is curious because Marx used it despite consigning what to the realm of ideology?

What does Adorno call the 'de-historicizing of sociology that we are seeing today'?

In Lecture Sixteen, Adorno concludes that his criticism of sociology's pretension to authority is that this pretension is of what nature?

Adorno states that a technocratic approach to sociology extends to human beings. What is this approach?

What is the ambivalent nature of 'politics' as an ideology, according to Adorno's interpretation of Marx?

What does Adorno suggest is the most urgent demand of students regarding university reform?

Why does Adorno believe the problem of the connection between sociology and economics was at least 'regarded as a problem' in the work of Max Weber?

Adorno argues that a certain type of sociology 'restricts itself to opinions and preferences or, at most, to interpersonal relationships, social forms, institutions, power relationships and conflicts.' What does he call this sociology?

What is the great challenge or question that Adorno claims is posed of central relevance to sociology today, which he feels he owes an answer to?

In what way does Adorno find sociology to be a 'very curious discipline' compared to the natural sciences?

What does Adorno mean when he says his lecture comprises a 'catalogue and a critique of the basic ideas of positivist sociology'?

What is the primary danger or 'risk' Adorno sees in the student movement's focus on institutional orientation?

Adorno concludes Lecture Sixteen by noting that the strict division between economics and sociology sets aside the central interests of both. What is the consequence of this?

What is the paradoxical outcome when a formal distinction, like the one between sociology and social philosophy, is introduced, according to Adorno's 'sociological law'?

What is the problem with 'critical research into communications' that Adorno mentions?

In what way is the concept of 'political economy' ambivalent?

What reason does Adorno give for Marx's repugnance towards the 'reifying, merely contemplative posture of sociology'?

What is Adorno's final thought on the relationship between sociology and history in Lecture Sixteen?

Approximately how many years had passed between Paul Lazarsfeld's article on communications research and Adorno's lecture in 1968?

What is the 'real difference' between administrative and critical research, according to Adorno's interpretation?

Adorno mentions a famous sociology that 'seeks to be nothing but sociology'. Whose dictum is this?

What, according to Adorno, is the 'gravest objection' that can be made to what is generally called sociology?

Adorno states that the ideal of total administration, despite its apparent neutrality, is actually what?

According to Adorno, why do ideas gain their depth?

What does Adorno identify as the central sociological problem that has been excluded from scientific sociology in the narrower sense?

In what way is there an 'area of indifference' between economics and sociology, according to Adorno?

What does Adorno leave open regarding Marx's work in this lecture?

In Adorno's view, what choice must one always make in science?

What does Adorno identify as the shared failure of both economics and sociology due to their strict separation?

What is the error in trying to extend the scientific control of individual social situations to the control of society as a whole?

Whom does Adorno cite as a key figure who put forward the idea that sociology's object can be understood 'from within'?

Adorno argues that the problem of political economy itself is really the problem of the relationship of sociology to what?

What, in Adorno's view, should economics do that it currently fails to do?

Adorno criticizes the idea of extending micro-level social control to the macro-level. What is his central reason for this critique?