20世纪30年代末,哥伦比亚学派的拉扎斯菲尔德与法兰克福学派的阿多诺曾在广播音乐研究领域发生过一场方法论之争。这场论争被后人称之为当代大众文化或媒介文化研究的第一次方法论冲突,由此标示出批判学派与实证学派的分野,因而使其成为当代文化研究学术思想史上一个重要的“理论事件”。相关的传记、学术史,都会或多或少地记录这场论争,并津津乐道地加以点评。然而,大多数学者止步于事件的表面,尚缺少更为深层的理论关注, In the late 1930s, Lazarsfeld, a Colombian school of thought, and Adorno, a Frankfurt school, had a methodological dispute in radio music research. This controversy was later described as the first methodological conflict in the study of mass culture or media culture, which marked the distinction between critical school and positivist school, which made it an important issue in the history of academic thought of contemporary cultural studies. Theoretical event ". Related biographies, academic history, will more or less record the controversy, and relish comments. However, most scholars stop at the surface of the incident and still lack a deeper theoretical concern.