Students and Politics extended the Institute’s empirical typology research on authoritarian attitudes.

Evidence

Students and Politics, a `sociological inquiry into the political awareness of Frankfurt students’, was part of the series of studies carried out by the Institute on the topic of the university and society. It was to take its place in the tradition of great empirical research projects carried out by the Institute of Social Research. With its extrapolation of a typology of deep-seated political attitudes in order to assess the democratic potential among students, it continued the work done in Group Experiment, The Authoritarian Personality, Studies on Authority and the Family and the study on the working class in Weimar Germany. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 575

Categorization

• XREF: Links the book’s earlier discussions of Group Experiment, The Authoritarian Personality, and the Weimar workers’ study into one research lineage. — connects to: Political psychology’s typological tradition produced scales for authoritarian, dogmatic, and Machiavellian personalities — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 117
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Political psychology’s typological tradition produced scales for authoritarian, dogmatic, and Machiavellian personalities — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 117