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University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research (German: Institut für Sozialforschung, IfS) is a research organization for sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School and critical theory. Currently a part of Goethe University Frankfurt, it has historically also been affiliated with Columbia University in New York City.

For the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, see University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

Abbreviation

IfS

1923 (1923)

Foundation

Ferdinand Sutterlüty (Acting Director)

The Institute of Social Research

(in German)

History of the Institute of Social Research

(in German)

Download the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (1932-1941), the Institute of Social Research's journal