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

Correct answer: Almost thirty years.

Explanation

This is a quantitative question based on a specific temporal reference in the text, testing close reading and recall.

Other questions

Question 1

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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?

Question 15

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

Question 16

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?

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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?

Question 24

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?

Question 25

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?

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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?

Question 30

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'?

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

According to Adorno, why do ideas gain their depth?

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

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

Question 50

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