Question 21 of 50

According to Adorno in Lecture Eleven, what is a general rule of thumb regarding the relationship between ideas and the results of an empirical study?

In his discussion of Karl Popper's concept of falsification, what does Adorno argue about the possibility of falsifying a study?

What is Adorno's primary critique of the use of 'factors' or 'sub-syndromes' in empirical studies like 'The Authoritarian Personality'?

According to Adorno, what happens when ascetic purists of the positivist persuasion try to create one-dimensional research instruments to avoid ambiguity?

What is the meaning of the Latin phrase 'cui bono' that Adorno suggests should be asked when analyzing a sociological text?

Adorno argues that intellectual structures, such as sociological theories, possess a dual nature. What are the two components of this nature?

What reason does Adorno give for the necessity of the 'autonomy of the mind'?

The American sociologist Robert Lynd is mentioned by Adorno as an example of a repugnance for historicism. What principle did Lynd claim to follow in his reading?

What is Adorno's primary argument for why the study of the history of dogma is an integral part of sociology?

How does Adorno interpret the assertion that a theory, such as Marxism, is 'obsolete'?

What central dichotomy from Auguste Comte's sociology does Adorno discuss as an example from the history of dogma?

According to Adorno, what significant sociological concept was first expressed, in a crude form, by Comte's static/dynamic dichotomy?

To which sociologist does Adorno attribute the influential coupling of the categories 'integration' and 'differentiation'?

What does Adorno find highly topical about Spencer's thesis of the parallelism between integration and differentiation?

Which sociologist's work, centered on the category of 'imitation' or mimesis, does Adorno believe could be productively re-awakened in current sociology?

What does Adorno identify as a primary danger of analyzing ideologies or syndromes like the 'highly prejudiced personality'?

What does Adorno claim about the relationship between the productivity of a research investigation and the exactness of its methods?

According to Adorno, what is the consequence of the increasing technicization of the social sciences?

In Lecture Eleven, Adorno states that what survives in what is dismissed as 'out-of-date' may be precisely what is most important. What does he call this surviving element?

What does Adorno suggest about the current state of Spencer's system of sociology?

What does Adorno identify as a 'spurious problem' that arises from the reification of factors in social research?

Adorno's concept of 'twofold reflection' on mental structures serves as a defense against what facile charge?

What does Adorno suggest about Marx's theory in relation to the 'single firm' or 'single factory' model?

In the conclusion of Lecture Eleven, Adorno states that reading earlier sociological writings of major stature is not merely an aid but what?

Adorno uses a psychoanalytic lens to interpret the 'over-eager assertion of the obsoleteness of a phenomenon.' What psychological process does he imply is at work?

During his discussion of Spencer, Adorno makes a slip of the tongue, which he immediately corrects. Which sociologist's name did he mistakenly say instead of Spencer's?

What is the second problem, besides the reification of factors, that Adorno highlights as being connected to the logic of science and content analysis?

What, according to Adorno, is the ultimate purpose of the 'twofold reflection' he advocates for when studying mental structures?

What does Adorno identify as the motivation for Robert Lynd's 'repugnance for the historicism, especially of the German type'?

Adorno claims that one can only ascertain what is meant by the concept of 'the social totality' by seeing what?

What is Adorno's final word on the 'new thinking' at the end of Lecture Eleven?

What is the title of the book by Robert Lynd, mentioned on page 94, which created the genre of the 'community study'?

How does Adorno characterize the logic of science in the empirical study that made problems clear to him?

When discussing the dual nature of intellectual structures, Adorno says that behind the 'faits sociaux' (social facts) stands society in what way?

What, according to Adorno, is the relationship between Comte's dichotomy and the dialectic?

What does Adorno identify as the real roots of the structuralists' concept of structure?

Adorno's lecture opens with a complaint about the university's facilities. Which of these was NOT one of the problems he mentioned?

What is Adorno's primary reason for stating that quantitative content analysis cannot be applied to autonomous mental structures?

In his critique of the 'Likert Scale,' what does Adorno imply is the main reason for its fruitfulness, despite its ambiguity?

To whom did the economist in Germany, mentioned on page 94, say that 'political economy' was really only a part of the history of dogma?

What, in Adorno's view, do the technicized social sciences do with earlier, fundamental questions of social reflection?

How does Adorno dialectically mediate the crudity of Comte's static/dynamic dichotomy?

Adorno's reference to Thomas Hobbes's materialism is used to illustrate what broader point about studying the history of dogma?

What does Adorno suggest is the origin of the autonomy of mental functions?

According to Adorno, how do individual items in 'fruitful studies of the empirical type' often function?

At the start of the lecture, what does Adorno say is necessary to do before one can classify material into 'factors' in content analysis?

Adorno believes that the history of dogma is necessary for two reasons. The first is the strong tendency to relegate it to intellectual history. What is the second reason?

What does Adorno suggest is the reason that items where many dimensions converge often prove especially productive?

In his final sentence of Lecture Eleven, what topic does Adorno announce for his next lecture?