Recepção: divergências metodológicas entre adorno e Lazarsfeld

Lazarsfeld convidou Adorno para, juntos, realizarem uma pesquisa sobre a audição de música no rádio. Nada deu certo, tornando a colaboração impossível. Na raiz da discórdia está a divergência entre a metodologia funcionalista de Lazarsfeld e a teoria crítica de Adorno. Este criticava no primeiro o apego à imediatez da escuta, sem levar em conta a categoria dialética da mediação.

Th is paper discusses the meeting that took place between Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Th eodor W. Adorno, who were working together to come up with a research about music listening through the radio. Th e attempt to reconcile “American empiricism with European theory”, proved to be, however, impossible. During the research, the diff erences between Lazarsfeld’s positivistic procedures and Adorno’s dialectics became an obstacle to the project’s completion. Th is episode came to be one of the twentieth century most fascinating chapters on the debates about methods in communication studies.