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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.

This article traces the scholarly contacts between two important intellectual traditions: the historically based, Marxist Frankfurt school & the Lazarsfeld/Merton Bureau of Applied Social Research in New York between 1934 & 1956. In this account, the focus will be on the differential career stages of Leo Lowenthal & Elihu Katz & 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 & Lowenthal's role in developing a sociology of literature & popular culture; & finally, the implications of Lowenthal's mentorship of Katz at the beginning of his scholarly career. References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2006 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

Testing a cybernetic model, findings locate decision power in the foreign desk and show government content-determining role is only auxiliary in a decentralized system, unlike usual Communist pattern.