Because prejudice forms a structural personality whole, remedies must target the whole structure

Evidence

Since this character structure continued to exist, the Berkeley group came to the conclusion that the fact that the various aspects of personality formed a structural whole implied that any defence measures undertaken must be directed towards the structure of the prejudiced personality as a whole. `The major emphasis should be placed, it seems, not upon discrimination against particular minority groups, but upon such phenomena as stereotypy, emotional coldness, identification with power, and general destructiveness.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 447

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Berkeley group’s core inferential move: personality-as-structure entails structural, not symptom-level, intervention.
• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s Institute-for-Social-Research thread on authoritarian character research and to Adorno’s later writings on the same dataset. — connects to: Prejudice must be fought at its structural core, not symptom by symptom — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1814; Distinct structural relations produce qualitatively different forms of prejudice — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 305; Prejudice-reduction programs can target structural rather than only individual-level change
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Prejudice must be fought at its structural core, not symptom by symptom — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1814; Distinct structural relations produce qualitatively different forms of prejudice — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 305; Prejudice-reduction programs can target structural rather than only individual-level change

Broader Connections

• Prejudice must be fought at its structural core, not symptom by symptom #corroborates (0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1814