SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intellectual, Frankfurt School, Eurocentrism
18 Dec 2016
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He got a soccer scholarship and moved to cleveland in america. His friend gave him a copy of escape from freedom". He became a political activists and moved to new york city to move america to the left. He was meeting a lot of political intellectuals. Many loved it but his graduate teachers thought it was simplistic. Mass publics vs. academic and political elites. He wrote about the rise and fall of fromm which started him on the academic path. He had to ee the nazis and taught at columbia university but was laster kicked out. Alfred weber phd in sociology/social psychology was his professor. Best selling author in america: marixist dr. phil. Among psychoanalytic thinkers in the 40"s and 50"s he was very in uential. Part of frankfurt school group and the authoritarian personality. In uential in sociology in the 1950"s and 1960"s david reisman and theories of alienation (known as founder of sociology)
