Post-war research framed authoritarianism as a threat to democratic civilization
Evidence
For Adorno et al ., the problem of research on prejudices and discrimination in society revolved around developing and promoting an understanding of social-psychological factors which have made it possible for the authoritarian type of man to threaten to replace the individualistic and democratic type prevalent in the past century and a half of our civilization, and of the factors by which this threat may be contained. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 276
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Postwar researchers studied American veterans as a test for fascism susceptibility — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 709; Scholars treated authoritarian legacies as purely destabilizing to new democracies — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 95
Related
- Postwar researchers studied American veterans as a test for fascism susceptibility (similarity 0.84)
- Postwar authoritarianism research studied followers rather than would-be tyrants (similarity 0.84)
- Authoritarian personality theory reframed stereotypes as pathological individual cognition. (similarity 0.81)
- Modern prejudice research shows Allport was right that environment activates authoritarian fear (similarity 0.81)
- Authoritarians show normal self-esteem; their threat orientation is learned, not pathological (similarity 0.78)
- Authoritarian personality research declined due to methodological and psychometric flaws (similarity 0.78)
- Allport and Adorno diverged on what core drives authoritarian prejudice (similarity 0.78)
- Allport saw anxiety at the core of authoritarianism while Adorno emphasized aggression (similarity 0.78)
- Authoritarianism of the left was ignored until climate change made it palatable (similarity 0.78)