LECTURE SEVEN

In LECTURE SEVEN, what two categories does Adorno say the university syllabus distinguishes between in the field of sociology?

According to Adorno in LECTURE SEVEN, from which eighteenth-century practice, associated with the administration of a planned economy, did empirical social research develop?

In LECTURE SEVEN, from which academic discipline does Adorno state that 'theoretical sociology' arose?

Who does Adorno credit with originating the name 'sociology' about a hundred years before his 1968 lecture?

According to LECTURE SEVEN, what was the primary criterion that early propagators of bourgeois society, the intellectual ancestors of positivism, applied to mental activities?

In the anecdote about the oral examination in LECTURE SEVEN, what did the student, who was an expert on the 'small group', consider to be on the 'rubbish heap of history'?

In LECTURE SEVEN, Adorno mentions a tendency towards 'concretism'. Who does he credit with drawing attention to this concept?

What term, coined by the psychoanalyst Hermann Nunberg, does Adorno use on page 66 to describe the inability of people to generate a firm, permanent ego?

In LECTURE SEVEN, Adorno identifies two entwined and contradictory themes running through the matter of university reform. What are they?

Whose concept of 'instrumental reason' does Adorno invoke to criticize the tendency in university reform to turn the university into a 'people factory'?

How does Adorno, following Hegel and Marx, define the concept of society to argue against it being a simple, high-level abstraction?

In his discussion of comparative abstraction, Adorno notes the North-South divergence can be found in Italy. What is the name he gives to the southern region of Italy that has been a constant source of unrest?

What is Adorno's primary critique of using a 'social atlas' model (e.g., of Hessen) to understand society?

What is the most fundamental reason Adorno gives for why an additive approach to understanding society (like the 'social atlas') is insufficient?

In LECTURE SEVEN, Adorno states that sociology is not a closed theoretical structure like law or medicine, but rather a what?

What two professions does Adorno mention on page 64 as being the 'special whipping-boys' for early positivist thinkers because their activities were deemed 'useless'?

In discussing the two contradictory tendencies of university reform, which two authors of negative utopias does Adorno mention to argue that total social integration cannot be smoothly imposed?

Adorno refers to his own detailed analysis of the limits of social integration in a study of Huxley's 'Brave New World'. In which of his books does he say this essay can be found?

What is the primary danger Adorno identifies for students who focus exclusively on the 'hyphen-sociologies' (specialist disciplines) without keeping an eye on the large theoretical questions?

Adorno criticizes the idea that 'general sociology' is merely the highest abstraction derived from individual disciplines. Instead, what does he say 'theoretical sociology' should examine?

In his example of comparative abstraction, Adorno mentions a divergence between north and south in many countries. Which social theory does he say one would naturally think of first to explain this in Germany?

Why does Adorno argue on page 69 that the North-South divergence in America complicates a simple explanation based on Weber's sociology of religion?

What academic field does Adorno say on page 69 practices the comparison of different societies most extensively today?

How does Adorno suggest that similarities between rituals in late civilizations and those among 'savages' should be understood by sociology?

In LECTURE SEVEN, the lecture is dated as what?

Adorno mentions the twofold nature of sociology, reflecting a practical and a theoretical aim. Which of these does he describe as seeking 'real insight into that which holds the whole commotion together'?

Which two early modern social thinkers, who can be called sociologists, does Adorno say had the 'gravest reservations about philosophy'?

In the anecdote from the oral exam, the student who specialized in 'small groups' understood the idea of a 'better arrangement of society' in what way?

Adorno sees a 'genuinely emancipatory movement' in university reform. What does he say this movement wants to confront the pressures of adaptation with?

What does Adorno claim is the ultimate result of the Scientific Council's proposals for university reform?

Adorno argues that the exclusive procedure of comparative abstraction in sociology is untenable. Why?

What does Adorno say is the relationship of sociology to ethnology and anthropology?

What is the title of the Mayo study mentioned on page 65, which investigated the role of informal groups in work productivity?

In LECTURE SEVEN, Adorno argues that 'private ethics' have little effect on the decisive questions of ethics. What does he say these decisive questions concern?

Adorno's final point in LECTURE SEVEN is that an additive approach to sociology fails. The 'most fundamental reason' is that the different sectors of society...

In LECTURE SEVEN, Adorno characterizes the relationship between 'theoretical' and 'specialist' sociology as what?

What does Adorno suggest is the consequence of sociology not having a closed theoretical structure like law or medicine?

In LECTURE SEVEN, Adorno suggests that the student movement invalidates a key assumption found in the negative utopias of Huxley and Orwell. What is that assumption?

What does Adorno find 'extremely revealing' about the formulation of the student in his oral exam anecdote?

Adorno states that one viewpoint of university reform leads beyond the university to a critique of society. What feature of society does this viewpoint critique?

On page 68, Adorno claims he has 'vigorously opposed' a certain form of organization of sociology. What is it?

When discussing the North-South divide in Italy, Adorno mentions the incorporation of the south into the bourgeois republic has not been successfully achieved. What does he say 'the south' means in this context?

Adorno concludes that present society cannot be understood as an agglomerate of all possible part-sociologies. What term does he use to describe society instead?

Which two thinkers does Adorno credit on page 68 with the concept of society as a 'concretely general concept'?

What is the practical reason Adorno gives at the start of LECTURE SEVEN for the division of sociology into 'general' and 'specialist' branches?

On page 66, Adorno quotes an old Berlin saying to illustrate why people might develop an 'ego weakness'. What is the saying?

What does Adorno advise students to do very carefully to navigate the 'antimony within the student movement'?

On what grounds does Adorno on page 63 say that 'so-called 'private ethics'' have little effect on the decisive questions of justice?

What factor does Adorno suggest on page 69 might explain the North-South divide, before showing its limitations by using the example of northern Italy?

In LECTURE SEVEN, what is the 'extremely relevant and interesting question for theoretical sociology' that was revealed by the Mayo study?