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Revisiting the Origin of the Administrative versus Critical Research Debate

2016; Penn State University Press; Volume: 6; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5325/jinfopoli.6.2016.0004

2381-5892

Elihu Katz, Ruth L. Katz,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

Abstract This scholarly essay by Elihu and Ruth Katz recounts the story of the “high moment” of the original debate between administrative and critical theory. The tensions between the Frankfurt and Vienna schools of immigrant scholars of the 1930s are captured in the conflict between Paul Lazarsfeld, who engaged with the then-new commercial model of media research, and Theodor Adorno, a critical scholar, who disdained it, over the Princeton Radio Research Project (1937–1944). In the end, they conclude that something of the other's model rubbed off on each of them.