Publications

In 1961, Daniel Bell interviewed Paul F. Lazarsfeld about topics ranging from Lazarsfeld’s childhood friendship with Friedrich Adler to his fraught relationship with C. Wright Mills. Lazarsfeld, in the course of defending himself against Mills’ charge...

This article reconstructs the Institute for Social Research’s 1944-1945 study of working-class antisemitism in America. Initially, it shows, the Frankfurt School researchers understood antisemitism as an ideology amenable to reason; ultimately, they...

The Unemployed of Marienthal (1933) has long been esteemed as a classic of twentieth-century social science; its portrait of the effects of joblessness on individual minds and social institutions has inspired generations of researchers. But this reception...

Theodor Adorno has a reputation for being adamantly opposed to empirical social science; he denounced it as, at best, a methodological fetish and, at worst, a source of reification. For the most part, scholars have implicitly followed Adorno's view...