Frankfurt School

(noun)

The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory, associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1923 by Carl Grunberg.

Related Terms

  • Ernest Gellner
  • Pierre Bourdieu

Examples of Frankfurt School in the following topics:

  • Student Subcultures

    • Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of that prescribed by social institutions like family, work, home and school.
    • Conversely, Marxists of the Frankfurt School of social studies argue that youth culture is inherently consumerist and integral to the divide-and-rule strategy of capitalism.
    • Certain crowds are found in many, even most, high schools across the United States, although the particular terms used by adolescents in them vary (nerds instead of geeks, goths instead of emos, etc.).
  • High and Low Culture

    • Following the work of the Frankfurt School, popular culture has come to be taken more seriously as a terrain of academic inquiry and has also helped to change the outlooks of more established disciplines.
  • The Warren Court

    • Douglas, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, and John Marshall Harlan II.
    • Felix Frankfurter and Robert H.
    • When Frankfurter retired, President John F.
    • Connecticut) and it established that public schools cannot have official prayer (Engel v.
    • Vitale) or mandatory Bible readings (Abington School District v.
  • Summary and references

    • Harvard Business School.
  • Modern Korean Art

    • Works of art were looted and destroyed, schools of art were closed, and Korean styles were replaced with paintings of Japanese subjects in Japanese styles.
    • Pre-Bell-Man, statue in front of the 'Museum für Kommunikation', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • In this cartoon, an Adviser of Workers' Evening School Council says "Hello, we have to work for our country and people have to learn."
  • Judicial Activism and Restraint

    • Former Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter , a Democrat appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, is generally seen as the model of judicial restraint.
    • Former Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, one of the first major advocates to advocate deferring to the legislature.
  • The Anti-German Crusade

    • Sauerkraut became liberty cabbage, frankfurters were called hot dogs, and Salisbury Steak was given a less gastronomically pleasing but more Americanized label: meat loaf.
    • In the 1918 Babel Proclamation, the governor of Iowa prohibited all foreign languages in schools and public places.
  • Summary, discussion questions, and references

    • "Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World," Research Publication No. 2003-05, GartnerG2 and The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications.
  • Role of Financial Markets in Capital Allocation

    • The Frankfurt Bond Market is an example of a financial market that allocates capital.
  • Early Public Schools

    • Early public schools in the United States took the form of "common schools," which were meant to serve individuals of all social classes and religions.
    • The earliest public schools were developed in the nineteenth century and were known as "common schools," a term coined by American educational reformer Horace Mann that refers to the aim of these schools to serve individuals of all social classes and religions.
    • Typically, with a small amount of state oversight, an elected local school board controlled each district, traditionally with a county school superintendent or regional director elected to supervise day-to-day activities of several common school districts.
    • Because common schools were locally controlled and the United States was very rural in the nineteenth century, most common schools were small one-room centers.
    • In the early 1900s, schools generally became more regional (as opposed to local), and control of schools moved away from elected school boards and toward professionals.
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