Adorno for instance identifies the culture industry as to blame for the shift in social thinking from what should have been a natural uprising among the proletariat to, what he judges to be an unnatural pacification of the working class via subjugation by media (the manufacturers of culture). Horkheimer utilized group and individual studies via survey and interview as well as observation in order to integrate data from which could be culled patterns of thinking and behavior. This methodology allowed the Frankfurt School philosopher to identify patterns that could explain the psychology behind social thought and social submission to totalitarian forms of government (Adorno et al. 12). Arendt, for her part, uses personal experience and a victim narrative in conjunction with the narrative depicting Hitler as evil authoritarian to convey an argument about how nationalist fervor can blind people to sad and tragic realities. Arendt's argument follows thus: the psychology of ordinary Germans following Hitler was supported by the leader's identifying of Jews as the root of all Germany's problems; they served as an easy scapegoat and relieved the German people of taking responsibility for their ills themselves. Why the trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem, as Arendt depicts with obvious…
According to Bales, 1999, the concept behind SYMLOG is that "every act of behavior takes place in a larger context, that it is a part of an interactive field of influences." Further, "the approach assumes that one needs to understand the larger context -- person, interpersonal, group, and external situation -- in order to understand the patterns of behavior and to influence them successfully." With SYMLOG, measurement procedures are