The decline of Protestant inwardness reversed cultural value toward extroversion.

Evidence

The element of internalization played a decisive role in early Puritan novels of the Richardson type. This element no longer prevails, for it was based on the essential role of ‘inwardness’ in both original Protestantism and earlier middle-class society. As the profound influence of the basic tenets of Protestantism has gradually receded, the cultural pattern has become more and more opposed to the ‘introvert.’ — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 216

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Interest to Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd on other-direction, which Adorno invokes here.