Authoritarian conventionalism tracks authority-endorsed norms, not middle-class values specifically

Evidence

Similarly, the Berkeley theorists thought “that susceptibility to fascism is most characteristically a middle-class phenomenon” (p. 229), and so they defined conventionalism as “rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values.” My definition of right-wing authoritarianism focuses instead on the individual’s perception of the authority-endorsed norms, which may or may not be middle class norms. (And the evidence indicates that, in North America at least, educational differences help RWA scores to be higher in the “working class” [RWA, p. 242]). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 609

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Instrumentarian power does not require conformity or mass submission to norms — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1203