LECTURE FIFTEEN

According to Adorno's discussion in Lecture Fifteen, what is the primary characteristic of 'fetishism in science'?

Adorno traces the historical motif of sociology's claim to dominance over society back to which ancient philosopher's idea?

Which two modern thinkers does Adorno mention as continuing the claim for sociology's dominance, following Plato?

What is Adorno's primary criticism of Auguste Comte's 'stages' of history (theological, metaphysical, positive)?

The Hawthorne investigation, or Mayo study, is significant because it challenged Taylorism by highlighting the importance of what?

What does Adorno mean when he claims that the 'much-vaunted rationality of bourgeois society... is in reality irrational'?

Adorno uses the example of the permanent agrarian crisis to illustrate what concept?

The term 'cow sociology' is used by Adorno to critique a type of sociology that does what?

What does Adorno identify as the ultimate, and misguided, aim of the 'technocratization of the sociological ideal'?

In contrasting Comte and Herbert Spencer, what does Adorno identify as Spencer's 'decisive advance'?

Which American sociologist's work, particularly 'Theory of the Leisure Class', does Adorno cite as characterizing rational society's institutions as 'rudimentary 'archaic traits''?

What does Adorno identify as the primary task for a 'proper sociology' in the current era?

The famous advertisement for the Borden milk monopoly, featuring the cow Elsie, is used by Adorno as an analogy for what?

What, according to Adorno, is the key error in Mannheim's idea of 'free-floating intellectuals' having a right to social control?

Adorno argues that a non-fetishistic, critical sociology has a practical purpose. What is that purpose?

On what date was Lecture Fifteen delivered?

Why does Adorno believe sociology occupies a 'rather special position' regarding the problem of fetishization?

Adorno suggests that Plato's Ideas, in the context of his theory of the state, are actually what?

What does Adorno identify as the shared, and mistaken, conviction of thinkers like Spencer and Veblen?

Which of these institutions does Adorno NOT list as an example of an 'irrational institution' that has a function in so-called rational bourgeois society?

What is the 'misplaced dominance of present-day sociology,' according to Adorno's final argument in the lecture?

At the start of the lecture, what was the approximate result of Adorno's poll to see if students would attend a lecture on Tuesday the 16th?

What is the reason Adorno gives for the survival of the 'irrationality of institutions'?

The old, purely sociological claim to authority, according to Adorno, does NOT aim to do what?

What does Adorno identify as the task for intellectuals and for his own critical theory in the face of concepts like 'elitist leadership'?

Adorno's concept of a 'non-fetishistic type of sociology' is characterized by its relation to what?

What is the 'bizarre situation' that Adorno claims has arisen from sociology establishing itself as a separate discipline on the model of the natural sciences?

According to Adorno, thinkers like Comte and Mannheim, who advocated for sociologists to control society, failed to account for what fact?

In Lecture Fifteen, Adorno states that the threshold value in the rationalization of labor, beyond which productivity declines, was confirmed with great mathematical precision by studies from which country?

What is the 'ratio' or 'raison d'être' of society, according to Adorno, which he argues contemporary society runs counter to?

What is the illusion of 'classlessness' that Adorno connects with the modern sociological claim to authority?

What reason does Adorno give for why socialists might mistakenly adopt the technocratic ideal?

Adorno criticizes the thinkers in the tradition of Spencer and Veblen for overlooking what immense, autonomous role?

How does Adorno define 'means-end rationality' in the lecture?

What is the relationship between the 'technocratization of the sociological ideal' and the 'unconscious of human beings'?

Adorno suggests that a self-restriction of sociology has been 'apologetic in nature.' What was it apologizing for?

According to Adorno's interpretation, what is the deepest explanation for the importance of 'psychological moments' in modern society?

What, in Adorno's view, is the difference between what he would call a 'theory of society in a strong sense' and the 'narrow concept of sociology'?

Which of the following does Adorno suggest is NOT a part of the problem of the 'fetishization of science'?

In Adorno's analysis of Plato, the doctrine of Ideas and the theory of society are described as what?

What concept from the Hawthorne investigation does Adorno say cannot be derived from the conditions of rationalization itself?

According to Adorno, how long has a permanent agrarian crisis existed?

The concept of the 'industrial society', according to Adorno, is really no more than an extension of what older concept?

Adorno claims that if sociology is to live up to the demand he has for it as a practice of 'self-reflection', it must do what?

In the opening of Lecture Fifteen, Adorno finds himself in a situation he compares to being 'like the donkey caught between two piles of hay.' Why?

Adorno argues that the 'old, purely sociological claim to authority' is based on an illusion of classlessness. From which thinker does he draw the specific concept of a 'free-floating intelligentsia' to illustrate this?

What is the consequence of applying the 'dominance over nature' inherent in technology directly to human beings?

Adorno's critique of sociology's claim to dominance is rooted in the idea that sociology models itself after which other disciplines?

What is the primary function of the 'small irrational group' (the 'informal group') discovered in the Mayo study?

What does Adorno ultimately suggest is the best hope for intellectuals or sociologists?