The anatomy of a failure. The fate of the research entitled 'Artistic Public Taste and Lifestyle' between 1963 and 1968

The author describes the failure of a research project planned in the 1960s. He strictly confines himself to describing the failure of the research planned to explore the interrelationships between public artistic taste and lifestyle among workers of Budapest under the set of conditions of the 60s and within those coordinates of time. This way the paper is at once an eminent work on the history of the period as well as on the history of the discipline of sociology.