Authortarian Personality
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- Created on: 01-03-20 19:20
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- Adorno's Authortarian personality
- more than 2000 middle class white Americans
- their unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups ect
- investigated through a questionnaire
- An F-scale (facism) was developed to assess their authortarian personality
- their unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups ect
- findings
- people who scored highly identified more with "strong" people than "weak" people
- they're extremely conscious of their's and others' status
- they treat people with a higher status with excessive respect
- they have fixed and distinctive stereotypes to other classes/ groups
- positive correlation between authortarianism and prejudice
- characteristics
- obedient towards authority
- extreme respect
- submissive
- believe we need strong leaders
- contempt for people of a lower status
- highly conventional attitudes
- sex
- race
- gender
- inflexible with their outlook
- uncomfortable with uncertainty
- obedient towards authority
- origin
- formed in childhood
- result of harch parenting
- extremely strict discipline
- expectation of absolute loyalty
- high standards
- severe criticism of perceived failing
- conditional love, affection depends on behvaiour
- can't display anger towards parents due to fear of reprisal so it is displaced
- anger is displaced on others weaker than them
- psychodynamic explanation
- anger is displaced on others weaker than them
- result of harch parenting
- formed in childhood
- evaluation
- research support
- Elms conducted interviews with people who scored highy on the F scale
- found that there is only a correlation between obedience an authoritarianism
- AP doesn't cause obedience
- found that there is only a correlation between obedience an authoritarianism
- Elms conducted interviews with people who scored highy on the F scale
- extremely large sample size
- easier to generalise results to a wider population
- more representative
- easier to generalise results to a wider population
- ethnocentric
- though there is a large sample, it consists of only Americcans
- difficult to generalise to alternate cultures
- though there is a large sample, it consists of only Americcans
- limited explanation
- it is unlikely that everyone in pre-war Germany possess the exact same personality
- must differ in some ways
- it is unlikely that everyone in pre-war Germany possess the exact same personality
- research support
- more than 2000 middle class white Americans
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