Abstract
‘Society’ assesses the role of data and theory in Theodor Adorno's understanding of modern society, beginning with an examination of ‘The Positivism Debate in German Sociology’. The question was whether social science had any kind of scientific status. Adorno adopts the Hegelian idea that the truth about things emerges from the analysis of their relationships to other things in a totality. Investigation of social phenomena therefore has to move beyond immediate data to what objectively influences the interview responses that is not apparent in the responses themselves. It is worth considering critical theory, the idea of truth as a value, and Adorno's account of how social pressure functions.
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