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In both scholarly and popular literature, there have been numerous writings underlining thedifferences between critical rationalism and critical theory. Not the least of these was the controversy between Karl R. Popper and Theodor W. Adorno concerning the "methodology of the social sciences" at a 1961 seminar of the German Society for Sociology, which became known in social science history as the Positivismusstreit or "positivism dispute" (cf. Adorno et al., 1969), and which reinforced the image of two scholarly philosophies diametrically opposed on theoretical-methodological grounds.
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Salzborn, S. (2012). Critique as Premise. Reflections on methodological commonalities between critical rationalism and critical theory. In: Salzborn, S., Davidov, E., Reinecke, J. (eds) Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18898-0_4
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