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The Katz/Lowenthal Encounter: An Episode in the Creation of Personal Influence

This article traces the scholarly contacts between two important intellectual traditions: the historically based, Marxist Frankfurt school and the Lazarsfeld/Merton Bureau of Applied Social Research in New York between 1934 and 1956. In this account, the focus will be on the differential career stages of Leo Lowenthal and Elihu Katz and what that meant for their understanding of the mass culture critique. Three interrelated questions will be addressed: first, Lowenthal's preparation for his work at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt; then the Institute's transfer to Columbia and Lowenthal's role in developing a sociology of literature and popular culture; and finally, the implications of Lowenthal's mentorship of Katz at the beginning of his scholarly career.

Key Words: Frankfurt school • Bureau of Social Research • Lowenthal • Katz • mass culture critique

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 608, No. 1, 76-96 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206293413


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